Andis Kaulins in China

Saturday, January 8, 2011

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My latest video on youku.
Did a new decade start just last week? (Something I will ask just because I need to fill this blog with content.)
There is a festival of Dumplings to be held at my school on Saturday morning. First, I will have to do a demo class.
I have done the demo class. I had a good mob of 35 attend. One student's English name was "Cloudy" which was noteworthy. I have had students named Sunny, Snowie, Rainy, Rain, Summer, Winter, Sunny, Spring, and Wendy. As yet, there hasn't been a student to have an English name like "blustery", "stormy", or "Autumn".
Making dumplings is like making mini-Strombolis.
My 8th most popular video on youku.

AKIC readers the world over!

Please send Doris a postcard! Doris, who is a student of my school, likes to collect postcards sent to her from all over the world.

Here is her address:

214000

无锡市南长区阳光城市花园C区17号

无锡师范附属小学阳光校区

徐小雪

Now, you are probably saying to yourself that this in all in Chinese. How do I write this on a postcard? Well, You should do the following:

Print out the following and tape it to a postcard:

Doris

Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

214000

无锡市南长区阳光城市花园C区17号

无锡师范附属小学阳光校区

徐小雪

And don't forget to tell her that Andis told you to send her a postcard.

Wuxi Tony Update.
This weekend, the foreign trainers will rehearse for their School's Chinese New Dinner performance. Various groups from the school will perform. This year, the trainers don't want to make complete asses of themselves like they did at the last CNY Dinner. The other groups spend a lot of time practicing so the laowai feel compelled to take the performance seriously. The Spring Festival slash Chinese Lunar New Year's Dinner will take place on January 15.
The K family will have nine consecutive days off for the CNY. They will spend half of it in Beixing/Taixing and half of it in Wuxi.
Most Taiwanese have air-conditioners in their homes but no heaters -- something that visiting mainland Chinese find curious. Taiwan's climate is such that heaters aren't needed but air conditioners are. I learned this from a Taiwanese student we have who finds Wuxi very cold now.
The temperature is hovering around zero these days. Those not wearing long-johns are feeling it.
China is guaranteed to have a economic crash because it is building a monster-tall skyscraper. Read this article that chronicles the relationship between skyscraper building and economic crashes.

Notes about Tony.
A man who sits on a throne is a king. A man who sits on a horse is cowboy. A man who sits on a dog should be working. A man who sits on a camel is a Lawrence of Arabia wannabe. A man who sits on another man's lap is a Queen.
It has been suggested that fat foreigners could help with the Moresky360 sinking problem. Now! Come on!
Why wasn't Pope Benedict XVI named the Wuxi Expat of 2010? Well, it would have besmirched him. For in 2009, AKIC decided to make Obama the Wuxi Expat of the year -- AKIC had gotten into the fad of giving Obama undeserved awards and accolades that was occurring at the time. AKIC now realizes that that decision besmirched the Wuxi Expat of the Year Award; and it will take years or proper rewarding to build up a reputation for prestigiousness for the award. Now this of course raises the question: does giving the award to Tony Kaulins besmirch him? Well, he was a sentimental choice, and those kind of awardings are a bridge for an award to achieve future prestigiousness.
I wish I could find my Seattle Seahawks Knit Cap to wear this week. Just think, if the Hawks win the Super Bowl, they will have an overall record of eleven wins and nine losses.
I watched How to Train Your Dragon. Good movie! Thought it didn't pique Tony's interest just yet -- he warms up to movies on his own schedule.

It didn't seem so cold out. Perhaps, I will wear a lighter jacket today.
I saw a VW Sagitar car parked near my apartment building. Maybe because of the word's positioning on the back of the car (the top right of the rear end), I can't help but think of it as the "Ratigas". I even have to stop myself from thinking of the car as the "Ratigas" in conversation.