Blue skies…in CHINA?? Okay, it’s a bit ‘shopped.
It may be the fact that I’m now living in a hot & humid area where I sweat by the bucketful or that I’m delusionally believe my writing is actually good, but here I am writing on this silly blog.
I’ve been here officially here for 3 weeks now and my classes are honestly some of the best I’ve ever had a privilege to teach. My students’ English is simply fantastic (grammatically probably better than mine), and I can have a halfway decent conversation with them–do a little half Cantonese and half English, and bam! I can talk with almost everyone here.
Sounds great, right? Good position at a decent university with good students, competent support from the bosses, and higher pay than my previous post. As great as that sounds, the other shoe has dropped fairly quickly. Maoming sucks.
Aside from the Chinese pastime of eating, eating, eating, there is really nothing much to do here, besides shopping. Well, I suppose that’s what 85% of China is like. There’s two parks nearby, but they look a bit shitty.
The sucky-ness of Maoming was confirmed by a few of the long-timers that I met last night. One American and one Canadian, both of whom, have a pink parachute i.e., married to a local Maoming woman, and a Kenyan couplewho’s been here for a few years, but don’t quite understand why they’re still here…for the weather?)
But in all honestly, if this place was too happenin’, I’d probably be complaining just as much. Gawd, I’m such a bitch. That’s enough complaining from me. Honestly, I’ll try to make this place a little more livable. After all, the beach is only half an hour away! I’ll just need to wait for a blue sky day to go. Photos on this post are taken by yours truly.
