Hello from China

07/30/06 5:05 pm

So I found enough time to make a skin (it's under Pokemon - it's not in the skin release list; I'll fix that later...), will wonders never cease? I want to make more Haruhi skins, but apparently I left those files in America (so they will come later).

A wayward air conditioner leaked water on my laptop and now the keyboard is, for all practical purposes, unusable. But I am still thankful for air conditioning, that my laptop is a tablet (and so can convert my handwritten input to text), and that it's still under warranty.

Other than that, all is well and I'm loving it. It would be nice if I knew more Chinese... I'm a visual learner, so the hanzi come to me with relative ease (and the knowledge of them in Japanese doesn't hurt either), but I'm completely tone-deaf, so the spoken language is posing a difficulty.

Teaching English is also posing a greater difficulty than I'd imagined, for diverse reasons. Reason one is, perhaps, that I've never done it before. But who would let a petty thing like lack of experience get in their way? :P

Anyway, we're still on hiatus here. Hang in there.