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Happy Labor Day!

Y’all must be wonderin’ why it’s been so long since I last wrote. Well. I’ve been fixin’ to write a post here, but, well…

Okay, I don’t really talk like that. Yet. With any luck I won’t be assimilating the accent and vocabulary any time soon.

School has started at DTS for me. I’ve been reading and reading… and should probably be reading right now. Let’s call this post a break. I am enjoying being in the classroom again, though I’ve set myself up for massive overload by having Wednesday classes from 1pm to 9.30pm, with a scant 30 minute pause for dinner. Even better than that, my last class is almost 3 hours long. Who set my class schedule again? Oh, yeah. I did. We’ll see how it goes!

Sarah and I visited a Chinese fellowship yesterday. It felt good to be lao wai again, even if it was for only a morning.

Because we once again get to celebrate the less celebrated American holidays, I am free from classes today. Sarah is celebrating Labor Day by working. I found humor in this; she did not. I’m still looking for a job, so there is no work for me today.I’m catching up on some news – learning about McCain’s VP pick and reading about bugs with the 3G IPhone. I was buying into the hype… a little bit. But I’m too cheap, and apparently waiting is a good thing.

Back to the reading…

Funny Pic: the new iPhone

The NYTimes recently posted this picture taken the day of the 3G iPhone release. You won’t appreciate it unless you’ve seen Wall-E…

HT: Mike Monteiro and Rafael Torales

This is the final post…

…from our desktop computer.  Don’t worry - we plan to keep updating this site for awhile!

We are currently in the middle of the transition process, which right now includes selling all unnecessary items.  We bought this desktop computer when we came to China; though it is much newer than our laptop (5 years old, but still ticking!  They’re both Dells, if you care), it is much larger as well.  (I know - a desktop is bigger than a laptop.  It suprised me too.)  So, all of our music, pictures, and the rest are being transferred to a portable hard drive, and soon our computer will belong to someone else.

This sounds a bit like an eulogy.  For a computer.  Is that weird?  I mean, I expect such fanatisim from an apple user, but maybe I’m going a little overboard.  Anyway.

We had an absolutely beautiful weekend here.  Sarah presided over the annual solo and ensemble competition, while I took a much needed weekend off.  The sun was out in full force, which is an oddity for our cloudy city, so some students took advantage of the rays…for six hours.  At least one didn’t come to school yesterday due to his sunburn.

Many more “moving” stories to come…