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2011	Feb 11 36 Hours in Jinghong Liang Lake Luang Chenzhou 18 Archives
2010	Jan 15 Happiness is a Vampire 24 A Day in the Life of a Fake Teacher in the Real China Indochina Expedition 2010: Eve of Departure	Mar 02 Photos “View my photos by clicking one of the galleries on the drop-down menu above.” 03 36 Hours in Hanoi	Jul 06 Teaching Nineteen Eighty-Four in Mao Country “Every Wednesday evening six Chinese girls came to my apartment. By the middle of the ...”	Sep 14 Going Back to China “I rolled through an intersection without stopping. I pounded, tapped, blasted, and played the car ...” Where I Come From “A Chinese student, a talented English major from a university in Hunan, China, asked me ...” A Portrait of the Teacher by a Young Student “A student from my underground literature class wrote an article about her experience with ...” 20 Getting Settled in the City of Perpetual Gloom “A green-eyed monster was here. I knew it when another foreign teacher complimented Sarah, a ...”
2009	Jul 22 About “This weblog was formerly known as An American Adventure. It was my daily journal of ...” 24 Biography Adventures American Adventure 26 Confessions of a Hyperbole Abuser 29 Grandiose Visions of a Migrant Worker How It's All Gonna Be	Aug 24 Of Fried Chicken Feet 25 The Awakening Street Life 29 Being a Highly Respectable Foreigner with Chinese Characteristics 31 A Shopper’s Paradise	Sep 01 My First Week in China 1 comments A Dream Come True 02 Visit to a Local Shop 03 Locked Out 04 Matt Muller — Smethport’s China Connection 05 Object of Curiosity The Journey Began 07 Lit Week 1: Why Read? 08 Lit Week 1: Intro to Thoreau 12 Back to School: Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom! 13 Trauma or drama - That is the question 14 Drama Week 1: Suspended Disbelief 17 Dinner with the Yu Family 20 Thoreau: His Life and Times 21 Teaching Thoreau in the Heartland of China 24 Traditional Chinese Medicine & Elizabethan Theatre	Oct 01 Understanding Thoreau Will Chinese Students One Day Appreciate Thoreau? The Government-Issued Literature Textbook 14 Drama - Chinese students step up English skills 17 Teaching British Romanticism in China 25 36 Hours in Billings, MT	Nov 13 A Journey to Hengshan Mountain 20 Bear Fighting in Cyberspace 25 It's Gettin' Hot in Here (So Hot) 1 comments 29 Perspectives on China	Dec 31 Goodbye Year of the Ox