http://dors50.blogdrive.com/ dors50 Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:05:01 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2005. http://dors50.blogdrive.com/archive/24.html Thu, 14 Oct 2004 06:46:53 GMT Like an alien in this town, the wide dusty desert streets, step into a back street and suddenly it's a different world, narrow winding mudbrick mazes, watch your step or you're down in the hole. Muslim brown-skinned faces, all-seeing all-knowing eyes. People so beautiful you want to paint their portraits, the niggling frustration of unartistic hands. Weathered men onweathered motorbikes, creased faces, smiling eyes, women in headscarves rolling by on donkey carts. I'm in love with the picture. The thing about beauty is younever find it where you expect to find it - only in rare moments,... (more) http://dors50.blogdrive.com/comments?id=24 http://dors50.blogdrive.com/archive/23.html Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:35:42 GMT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If I Had Been Born a Tree Why I want to be a tree? You may think, Ah! Because China needs trees. You know every year there are many trees have cutten down by humans. Then they cause many floods and droughts. So many people no home to return to. Even they lost their lives. I don't like to see that again, so I want to be a tree. If I can, I want to be many trees and grasses. I can stop water from flowing, stop the strong wind from blowing. If that not happened, the... (more) http://dors50.blogdrive.com/comments?id=23 http://dors50.blogdrive.com/archive/20.html Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:14:55 GMT A briefing we received this morning at our staff meeting: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Foreign teachers who have any one of the following behaviours would be sent to public securities and some other concerning departments according to the serious of the case: 1. Have reactionary speech and actions which disrupt unity between different ethnic groups; organise or stir up trouble and participate in illegal religious activities that disturb public order, insult and slander others and do not repeat for such... (more) http://dors50.blogdrive.com/comments?id=20 http://dors50.blogdrive.com/archive/19.html Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:11:32 GMT urumqi. first snow september 28th. we're in for a long hard winter. loneliness in the desert? a sense of isolation? no. far less so than jinzhou. but somehow, in this semi-metropolis, this sea of han and uighur faces, that old anonymity is present, no longer people shouting 'hello', no longer the stares that used to follow me everywhere I went. Do I miss the attention? Is that what it is? Or are the soulful drums of Xinjiang echoing through me? http://dors50.blogdrive.com/comments?id=19 http://dors50.blogdrive.com/archive/18.html Wed, 28 Jul 2004 02:45:21 GMT Wednesday 7:15am. Foggy and humid, those massive flies rubbing their wings, making cicadas sound like lullabys. Another night spent sleeping under a soaking bath towel. July cruising into port. The odds-and-sods man cruising by on his loud-speaker bicycle. A solitary woman tai chi fan dancing outside the kindergarten. A car horn in the distance. Five purple morning glories getting a raw deal on this ethereal grey day. Another day of work ahead, but this one not too bad with only my EF4 (adult class) to entertain. This time round their names are better than fiction; could anyone come... (more) http://dors50.blogdrive.com/comments?id=18 http://dors50.blogdrive.com/archive/17.html Sun, 13 Jun 2004 08:59:01 GMT Dear Dora's mum, My name is David. I'm a student of Dora. I write to the letter to ask you to go to Beijing in China. I think that it's a beautiful and big city. You can visit a lot of places in Beijing. For example, the great wall. the summer palace, the palace museum and so on. You should take some summer coats. Because the summer in Beijing is very hot. You needn't to bring lots of money. You will find that Chinese people are very friendly and cute. I hope that you can have a good trip. Yours, David. Dear Dora's mum, My name is Ben, I am Dora's student. When you come to... (more) http://dors50.blogdrive.com/comments?id=17 http://dors50.blogdrive.com/archive/16.html Sun, 13 Jun 2004 08:43:55 GMT A SNAKE KEEPERS JOB She has to feed the snakes She has to get on well with the snakes She has to talk to the snakes She has to be friendly to the snakes She has to give the snakes some medicine when the snakes are ill She mustn't too near the snakes She mustn't play with the snakes She mustn't kill the snakes She mustn't fight the snakes She mustn't sleep with the snakes She mustn't drink with the snakes. http://dors50.blogdrive.com/comments?id=16 http://dors50.blogdrive.com/archive/15.html Sun, 13 Jun 2004 08:33:13 GMT sorry, long time no write... sweltering here in Downtown Browntown in 36 degree heat... at least we have air con at our school, imagine how the poor kids feel at their schools... in fact no need for me to imagine, as I have to teach at state schools every Monday and Tuesday, which has become almost unbearable over the last couple of weeks, especially with window opening a crime punishable by death. (hmm, maybe not literally.) More culinary delights to add to my tastebuds' resume; last night we ate silkworms (or BBQ cocooned pupee, as I prefer to call them), lambs feet, pigs trotters and... (more) http://dors50.blogdrive.com/comments?id=15 http://dors50.blogdrive.com/archive/14.html Fri, 21 May 2004 07:57:28 GMT went out for dinner last night with some mates to a BBQ joint. A plate of dog (very sinewy, disappointing, really) followed by barbecued rabbits heads (we had meant to order potatoes but something went wrong in the translation- not such an unusual occurance in the end). While I stuck to eating the rabbits cheeks, Daniel was a little braver and consumed the tongue (not without first sticking it between his lips and murmuring 'Give us a kiss darlin'') and the brains. I can't help feeling that food like this is far more suitable for playing with than eating. Tonight I think I'll stick to... (more) http://dors50.blogdrive.com/comments?id=14 http://dors50.blogdrive.com/archive/13.html Fri, 21 May 2004 07:47:23 GMT I was teaching today when I looked out the window to find the world had turned yellow. The air was thick with swirling dust, motorbikes were being toppled by the wind, some people were walking backwards against the storm, others were diving into shops for cover. It was the worst sandstorm since I've been here. http://dors50.blogdrive.com/comments?id=13