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		<title>Getting Settled in the City of Perpetual Gloom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A  green-eyed monster was here.  I knew it when another foreign teacher complimented Sarah, a post-doc student assigned to help me transition to life in one of China’s largest cities, the City of Perpetual Gloom.  To me, the green-eyed monster was a minotaur which shook its head furiously and threw its horns to either side.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Portrait of the Teacher by a Young Student</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A student from my underground literature class wrote an article about her experience with my teaching method.  I had been helping the student develop her writing skills so that she could perform well on the GREs as her dream is to go to graduate school on edge of the prairie in Garrison Keillor Country &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where I Come From</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Traveling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Chinese student, a talented English major from a university in Hunan, China, asked me to describe my hometown.  This is what I wrote: Smethport is very different from Chenzhou.  It is like a dream that I&#8217;m afraid will seem unreal or too abstract for you to realize.  Words alone are not enough to describe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Back to China</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I rolled through an intersection without stopping.  I pounded, tapped, blasted, and played the car horn like a motherfucking riot.  And wherever I went pedestrians and motorists alike trembled in fear.  America is a diverse country.  That was something I had missed while teaching in Hunan last year.  I had missed the Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Nineteen Eighty-Four in Mao Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Wednesday evening six Chinese girls came to my apartment.  By the middle of the Spring 2010 term at Xiangnan University in the home province of Uncle Mao and General Tso, I had come to depend on them to keep me happy.  They were junior English majors and picked English names like Tina, Victoria, Christie, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indochina Expedition 2010: Eve of Departure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first semester in China as an English teacher was over.  I would leave at dawn for Vietnam on Monday, January 25, 2010.  Now it was time to go and see if I had what it takes to travel for real.  This would be the first time traveling alone in the developing world without a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Day in the Life of a Fake Teacher in the Real China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day I found myself squealing like a pig in front of children.  I pushed my nose up, grunted, and oinked.  We were playing a simplified version of charades.  It was a Sunday afternoon in the bleak of January.  And this being China, it was bleaker than bleak.  The dean of my university had loaned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness is a Vampire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Traveling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day I discover other worlds so unlike the one I once called home.  The possibilities seem boundless.  I even fantasize about coming to America to become a Wal Mart door greeter or an assistant manager at McDonald&#8217;s.  If I work hard for a couple years and save money, then I could return to paradise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Year of the Ox</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/goodbye-year-of-the-ox-545</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I only teach three days a week, and spend most of my time studying, reading, blogging and sheltering from the cold, wintry rain it is easy to forget where I am.  A quick jaunt about the campus quickly reminds me that I’m not in Pennsylvania anymore. Just beyond the dingy metropolis, my university was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspectives on China</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/perspectives-on-china-536</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/perspectives-on-china-536#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Traveling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[November was nearly over here in the heartland of China.  The days alternated between short manic bursts of sunny, blue skies and  longer periods of sunless, chilly days full of drizzle and melancholy.  It was weather most conducive  to studying Mandarin, writing for my own site, and reading other people&#8217;s blogs.  One of my favorite [...]]]></description>
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