Settling In

Seems to involve mostly drinking. Just my luck I end up back in a terrible drinking culture.
Baijiu, pijiu, putaojiu, it follows me wherever I go. There are some HARD drinkers here, HARD and full of STAMINA!

I have realized just why they gave Ligaya and I all of the writing classes = fat stacks of boring and mundane writing about techan and the four seasons. Its A LOT of work if you have any desire to actually correct the grammar.

The geography class and writing class are a lot of fun, though. Geography means I can make my own curriculum, and the students are very respectful, and literature means I can fully lecture them (trust me, deviation from this model is NOT a good idea) just like when I was a freshman at UW. So I get to resort to the resources of the world wide web to dig up historical and cultural goodies. It's actually a good educational experience.

Also,
www.imagingtibet.org
will, with any luck, soon display the images of the promising youths of the plateau. Elena, and Australian ETP teacher, runs the program and has been lending them cameras and film and asking them to take photos of the aesthetically pleasing or of the ethnographically relevant.
I get to the web-designer and web-teacher, and can hopefully aid the students with photography as well. Unfortunately, I feel that perhaps my knowledge is a bit too technical. If they are using point and shoots or disposables, maybe I can aid them a bit by teaching composition. Rule of thirds! Too busy!! Ugly person!!!! Contrast issues!!! The images I saw were a mixed bag, with some serious finger-over-the-lens issues, but the students with the high-end digital cameras and film SLRs had some nice work.

What else?

I lost my iPod after a night on the town... am getting out of town tomorrow! YEAHH!