Radical Eclecticity

I figured I should write another post since I’ve been here for a bit less than a week. I’m getting settled in, and thoroughly enjoying my time here. I’ve made a couple of trips to Wal-Mart already, but both times I have been escorted so I didn’t want to shop in my normal wandering style. […]

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Now I can say, “I’m here!”
That was all… talk to you later.
Hmm… Ok, ok, I’ll elaborate. 
The first thing that I noticed is that, when speaking with locals, it’s really pretty easy for me to get the gist, and really easy to utterly miss the point, too. Nancy and Xu Xiaofeng picked me up […]

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I write this blog entry at 35,000 feet over the Bearing Sea. Of course, by the time anyone reads it, I’ll already be in China, but I have resisted the temptation to compose my words as though I was aready there. For one thing, what I write once I actually arrive will have a lot […]

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Changzhou by Night
Originally uploaded by Ajax the Pirate
I’m going to shuffle the LITDSTPTSOA list around a little bit. My summer plans have officially changed. I will be spending all but about six days of my summer break in ChangZhou (pictured here, thanks to Ajax) teaching English to Chinese kids, improving my Chinese abilities, […]

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It’s ironic, actually. Everyone kept asking me, “So, got any big plans for spring break?”
“Yeah, actually,” I thought to myself, “I’ve got a proposal I want to write, I want to try out Moodle and build some items for that, update my classroom website, and plan the fourth quarter. I need more spring break!!”
There are […]

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Dandelion Communitea Cafe
Originally uploaded by Social Citizen

I had the chance to spend some time today with a good friend that I haven’t gotten to talk with in quite a while. I always value the time I get to spend with Manny since, invariably, I learn something new or gain a perspective I didn’t […]

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Spring break is finally here, and while that is a source of great joy for me, it may not be for the most common reasons. On a day to day basis, I am able to accomplish those things that need to be done. I grade assignments, make tests, read the assigned readings for my class, […]

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It’s been long enough since I’ve written a blog entry that I thought it was time. Unfortunately, I wasn’t in the mood to write the next LITDSTPTSOA entry, so I almost didn’t write one at all. Then it occurred to me: The name of the blog is “Radical Eclecticity.” Limiting myself to sequential posts on […]

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Though I fully intend to hit Vegas this summer on my way to three of the four states that I haven’t been to yet, I can’t afford tickets to all the Cirque du Soleil shows this year, so I’ll have to go back later. I’ll probably try to hit one of them, but we’ll see.
Keep […]

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Yellowstone falls
Originally uploaded by melepix
As there are only four states in the Union that I have not been to (I was mistaken about Wyoming, for those of you that I had told three states), I simply must get to see the rest of them. I need to visit Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Alaska. […]

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