E/N - zomg

I was going to write up a big blog about how I'm almost finished teaching; that most of my friends here have gone home; but at least my 'girlfreind' and I have made an uneasy ammends...

But I really can't be bothered.

Hooray

Yesterday I travelled to this town (Gannan) Taught at the No.2 high school, which is ok I guess. Far better than the No.1 School where I taught today and will teach at again tomorrow.

At lunch break, the Teacher Mr Liu, took us to lunch as usual (for this school). Outside the school gates he was kind enough to point out that a hit-and-run accident had occurred nearby the night before, and that a middle-aged man had been killed by a truck.

He then points to the road, saying "that's his head, over there." Sure enough, there was some suspiciously brain-like matter sitting on the road.

After lunch, on my way back to the school, there were two men on the road, with shovels and plastic bags ready to clean this up.

Yes, they double-bagged.

another day, another rape dollar

I may as well write a "real' thing here, since I seem to have the time, just now.

People should be getting back from Fularji Chenguang school in a minute I think, maybe it's them I can here downstairs...

So, another week has gone by, and a new one has begun. This week, I should be going to schools at Jiusan and Nenjiang - to the north, which should be nice and cold for me! They tell me that the hotel at Jiusan is the best, and apparently the new hotel for Nenjiang is really good, too.

I don't know what I'm doing when I finish now. Very little is there for me if I return to Newcastle -I went to China to get out- besides family, Australia is a bit that way as well. I'll have to start over again. And with no money it would seem - I have a resonable stash to travel China with, but the exchange rate is still going to screw me coming back.

I finally found out why my dear friend has been out of contact, some ugly family business, which means that she doesn't want to 'disturb' her or for me to call her. I'm quite torn up about it.

All I can hope for is for her to get back in contact with me sometime in the next couple of weeks, as I have to make travel plans and whatnot. Previously they would have included her.

I'm quite sure that I want to stay in China for a while longer, if only to learn the language better. My boss asked me if I wanted to marry a Chinese girl (apparently I should know after 3 months), because she could help. Even if I was going to, it wouldn't be who she was getting at...

Ahh, this crap does my head in. I'd love to get another job: maybe teaching, maybe doing something else. Preferably in another part of the country, but I'll settle here for a while, if I have to.

In other news, I've been invited to go to a Chinese/Korean Christmas church service for (oddly enough) Christmas Eve. I had a quick look at the place yesterday... it was so trippy to see "Silent Night" being sung in Chinese. It'll be odd for me to go as an Australian would-be Buddhist to go to, but my name is still Christopher, after all.

I better close before I continue rambling.

I had an unplanned day off today!

So, this means that I got to spend my day lounging on my arse and to review my 9 Yuan (approx = AU$1.33) copy of Star Wars Episode III.

I couldn't help noticing a couple of things...

Emperor Yushchenko?

...I'm sure I'm going to some sort of hell for this:

And yes, I do need a girlfriend - or at least something better to do with my time... but it's too cold to go outside.