Since I’ve spent so much time complaining about Chinese food I don’t like, I thought I should devote some time to food I don’t hate.
I love everything at the Japanese place on Huang Shan Lu. First, I love the waitresses who try to understand my awful Chinese, they all deserve a medal. Of course, now they [...]
It was awesome having Pseudo-Thanksgiving with my Yantai friends. R and his wife brought their new baby so in some ways it really was like a family. A crazy dysfunctional family, with a lot of alcohol and trashtalk, but still.
We got takeaway from the Korean place near the school, something that’s almost like American barbequed [...]
The secretaries at my school are really not so bad. Sure, they practice a little creative recycling, and they’re a bit inclined to nod until I stop talking and they can go back to chatting on QQ. But they’re not alone. All office employees in China make sure they never tell you anything in case [...]
I started going to a yoga class. It’s really hard because although I can understand simple things like up, down, left, right and basic body parts, I can’t understand many verbs. I don’t think I understood a single verb in that whole class!
It was really tough to follow without really understanding the teacher, but it’s [...]
Today all my Korean kids came to class wearing traditional Korean dresses and eating this amazing candy called pepero.
Pepero is a Korean version of a chocolate-covered pretzel. Or chocolate-pretzels are the Amewrican version of pepero. Either way, pepero is an awesome cookie, chocolate, and nuts combination. And four sticks of pepero look just like today’s [...]
Near Tonga a new island is being formed by an erupting volcano. I can only imagine that hollywood is fighting over who will buy it first. So far its a mile wide and growing.
Sandra Campbell wrote this on November 10th, 2006 and filed it under Travel | No Comments »
Sanctuary’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes” Halloween Party
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Annual Party
One of the most wicked Halloween Parties in North America - Sanctuary, the weekly Goth Night for Vancover, brings you a bash you’ll never forget, each year towards Halloween - this year spinning 80’s, retro, electro, industrial, and alternative. [...]
Pleasure and Pain
October 27, 2006 - Capital Hill Arts Center, Seattle, Washington
A piercing and suspension extroadinaire, that took place in Capital Hill on friday merging together alternative music, circus acts, fire spinning/arts, skits, costumes, art, and suspension. A wild time and awe-inspiring performances beyond the imagination. The renown suspension troupe CoRE (CA/TX) performed with PURE [...]