Category: Xiangtan

I was asking Doug for some help with pronunciation on the few Chinese words/phrases that I know. As we were practicing, I told him that I often confuse the words for “goodbye” and “green beans”. Goodbye is “zai jian” and green beans is “si ji dou”. This lead to us creating many hypothetical situations involving…

These buggers have started coming in from the cooler weather, so we snapped a shot. The owl is our “fly/anything-that-moves swatter” for scale.

Doug and I are really beginning to fit in here. We’ve been told, separately, at various times from various people, that we look Chinese. For example,  last night we had dinner with our friend Dennis’ parents. When I met his dad he rambled off something in Chinese and I just stared blankly (as usual) then…

Karaoke is taken very seriously here in China. It’s not a funny joke that only someone completely drunk and willing to humiliate themselves would try like back in the states. They have quite the operation here with karaoke or “KTV” buildings on every corner downtown and even a few close to campus.  In fact, some…

I’ve entered the realm of animated gifs. This could get a lot worse before it gets better.

Last week we went into Xiangtan proper (we live in Xiangtan, but on the campus- so we take taxis to get into the actual city) It was Doug, Allison Gamble, our friend Jacob and I. We decided to get a massage and Jacob took us to a nice massage parlor. When we walked in they…