i've found a proxy that works...

For the longest time I couldn't post anything, because the chinese gov seems fit to silence people from speaking things it can't monitor. So, i've used a proxy, an 'alternate website' that makes it seem like i'm somewhere in the states. Briefly, the major ideas...

Teaching- Started this last weekend. I teach Sat and Sun, 8 hours each, and have the rest of the week off, for now. Except for two classes of 12 year olds, I teach mostly 8 year olds, just on the verge of starting to know english. It's really exciting that i can teach them how to pronounce letters, and learn to recognize words. Already I have a break coming up, a week or two, and i might visit Thailand with Heather and Kristen. Takes about half an hour depending on traffic to take the bus to work.

My apartment- 24th floor overlooking the ocean and a harbour. We see storms roll in, and also overlook some of the ever-stretching downtown. At night it seems like millions of fireflies flickering in and out. We've had one storm, just a little one, and all night we could hear the wind whistling past the windows. In a week typhoon Choi-wan may or may not hit us, a category 4 hurricane. It's currently far out from the phillipines right now.
Cockroaches, of which we've had three so far, reach 3 inches in length. They scurry almost faster than i can hit them, and require three flushes down the toilet.

We're having some other foreign teachers over just now, so i'll speak more in a bit.