Hello one and all! I have a job Woot!
Mom and I will both be teaching Business/Law courses at Sias International University the Henan Province of China. This program is a cooperative program with Fort Hays State University in Kansas. Basically we are teaching Fort Hays classes to the students in China. We will have 5-6 classes of 50-60 students each. Classes start Sept. 1; we’ll be leaving in mid-August. Here is a map of the biggest city (Zhengzhou) next to where we are moving this fall. If you zoom out, directly south you will see Xinzheng, our new hometown. We will be right next to the Longmen Grottos, Shaolin Temple (home of kung fu!), the Terra Cotta Soldiers, beautiful mountains, temples, etc. Zhengzhou also has cheap direct tickets to Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Beijing! The school itself is pretty sweet–it has a beautiful campus, we will both get an apartment, we have 3 meals paid a day, good salary, three months off a year, awesome benefits, a great community, and what promises to be great students. So Exciting!
It’s a story that gets more tragic by the hour. The Sewolferry, carrying 476 passengers, mostly youth from one high school in Ansan, South Korea, capsized last Wednesday while en route to Jeju Island. Shortly after the sinking, 174 passengers were rescued. More than a week later, at the time of this writing, 175 are confirmed dead; 127 are missing.
It’s also a story that’s downright mystifying. A captain that jumped ship. Untouched lifeboats. Orders to stay put as the vessel rolled. As bodies continue to be pulled from the sea, and as families desperately seek answers, the Sewol disaster has created a cultural flashpoint, forcing many to ask, “Who is to blame?” Continue reading
Was going to give blood to get my blood type. Got in the car. Then mom explained that they took a whole BAG instead of a vile like at the doctor. Ummmm. No. Back you vampire!
I am hiding my veins from all blood suckers. Test kit from Amazon, here I come. (o,..,o)
My friend: “ It’s an insubstantial amount. Painless. Physiologically cannot make you faint. Don’t be a baby.”
Me: “I am a coward This is a fact. But I live with it.”
Not very many people are aware of this, but I have been diagnosed with Eosinophilic Cellulitis.
Also know as Wells Syndrome, the disease is technically an “inflammation of skin cells” and involves problems with the immune system and white blood cells. Apparently, the disease is incredibly rare (fewer than 200 cases recorded in literature), and pretty much nothing is known about it.
The simplest way to explain the problem is to say my immune system likes to live in over-drive. Even the smallest injury (a mosquito bite for example) sends my immune system into a panic, thinking that I’ve been shot and am dying in a cold alley somewhere without treatment. Basically, my body tries to heal an injury that doesn’t really exist. So all of the little skin cells start swelling up, a rash breaks out, my skin becomes incredibly hot, and anything that touches it only spreads the problem further. It itches like crazy, like any healing wound, but if I touch it the skin cells break open, my skin starts peeling down layers, and it spreads and spreads. Even clothing is a problem. Continue reading
I can actually see my best friend and I doing this. . . . It would have been awesome for an answer to questions in English Lit. classes.
This is officially my suitcase the next time I travel 🙂 I copied a blank suitcase from openclipart.org, decorated it with my own style and tada! This is the result. 🙂 I would totally buy this if it were available!
I apologize for the quality; my camera isn’t the best in the dark. But, what a success with the red tint, huh!?! It actually does look really red, even to the naked eye!
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city” ~ Roman Payne
Language Translation
Deceptively Blonde 