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virtues and graces and laziness and zest: June 2015
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Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Walking in my grandfathers' footsteps. Sunday, June 28, 2015. For those who dont know, these past few days have been my last in Beijing. Ill be moving back to New York City after a seven-year hiatus, which fills me with joy and trepidation and excitement and basically All The Feelings, which will have to wait for another blog post because this post is about Beijing. I just reread my post from my first days here. 160;Was the flagpole always that far away?
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virtues and graces and laziness and zest: December 2014
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Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Walking in my grandfathers' footsteps. Saturday, December 13, 2014. With apologies to my favorite first sentence of all time: I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I've been doing some reading. Prairie Tides and Ocean Eyes. China's Most Terrifying Theme Park. Life of a Traveling ATC. View my complete profile. Watermark template. Powered by Blogger.
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virtues and graces and laziness and zest: A Lack
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Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Walking in my grandfathers' footsteps. Sunday, March 15, 2015. A little more than a year ago, I posted. About the South Korean ferry sinking. That tragedy immobilized me. I didn't cry, but I raged; I walked around with a sick, rotten feeling sunk deep in my stomach. I'd never lost a student before, and I couldn't fathom losing an entire junior class. Now there's an empty chair in my classroom. No one sits in her chair, even when it would be more convenient to wha...
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virtues and graces and laziness and zest: March 2015
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Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Walking in my grandfathers' footsteps. Sunday, March 15, 2015. A little more than a year ago, I posted. About the South Korean ferry sinking. That tragedy immobilized me. I didnt cry, but I raged; I walked around with a sick, rotten feeling sunk deep in my stomach. Id never lost a student before, and I couldnt fathom losing an entire junior class. Now theres an empty chair in my classroom. Two girls. . Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I've been doing some reading.
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virtues and graces and laziness and zest: October 2014
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Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Walking in my grandfathers' footsteps. Wednesday, October 29, 2014. You guys, Im tired. Its been a long week. This Sunday, I wrote four letters of recommendation, which took about six hours. I was pretty proud of myself, and sure that Id be a) in good shape and b) rested for the week to come. Saturday, October 4, 2014. It shows a tremendous amount of faith in my decision-making abilities), and while we were there we wandered into Decathlon, the Chinese equivale...
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virtues and graces and laziness and zest: Requiem
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Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Walking in my grandfathers' footsteps. Thursday, April 17, 2014. We should mourn every death, I know. There were fathers and mothers and grandparents on that boat, as well as grown-up sons and daughters and nieces and nephews. But I can't stop thinking: how does a school come back from the death of over half of its junior class? It's the teenagers that haunt me. It's always the teenagers that haunt me. That must be common for high school teachers, right? And they...
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virtues and graces and laziness and zest: The Living and the Dead
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Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Walking in my grandfathers' footsteps. Tuesday, February 17, 2015. The Living and the Dead. Today, I turned down what will probably be my only chance to see Angkor Wat. On what will probably be my last day ever in Siem Reap (my aunt and I take the boat to Phnom Penh tomorrow), I spent most of the day inside, asleep. It is also possible that the wooden walkways are there because of landmines. Sorry, Mom.). Honestly, the carvings were ethereal. And perched in t...
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virtues and graces and laziness and zest: August 2014
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Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Walking in my grandfathers' footsteps. Sunday, August 31, 2014. Melodrama warning: This is about the two books that saved my life. I should so not be writing a blog post right now. Its late, and I have a lot of work to do tomorrow (and tonight, still! But I assembled a shelfie on Dan Savages instructions. And put it on Facebook, and now I cant stop thinking about these books that saved my life, so now youre going to hear about them. Wednesday, August 13, 2014.
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virtues and graces and laziness and zest: In Transition
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Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Walking in my grandfathers' footsteps. Sunday, July 19, 2015. In the eleventh grade year of Language and Literature at my Beijing school, we read an essay by David Sedaris entitled "Chicken Toenails, Anyone? It's just that it isn't complete. Have you been to China? Ugh, no," said the American, "I'll never go there.". But you like Japan! Why would you not like China? This from the Englishgirlperson. Like Japan," said the American. That said, to pare down the two c...
