Sampling has become a theme of my life for the past week or so. For one, Greg, Laurel, and I decided to do something different at Costco. We flipped a coin and the result was that we tour and eat samples as an appetizer rather than after the hot d...
Life in China
campus coffee shop show
Last December I was asked by my good friend, Robert, to play a few songs at our campus coffee shop. Robert is a stellar electric guitar player, but this time he decided to play some mellow acoustic guitar songs. Here are 3 of the songs I played (o...
life at ludicrous speed
My time in China is quickly draining, and my friends here are realizing it. My neighbors tried to book me, Ryan, and Bethany for dinner and the date I had to tell them was Friday, June 18. My meals are quickly being booked up and all the guys I ha...
we ALL miss you, greg
Every day I get the same question from a different student."Jon, I hear you're coming back (always instead of 'going back')to America, and that you're never coming back to China..." It's not exactly a question, but the sad puppy face that always f...
the days are just packed
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if I have enough time to, that is: time is moving faster now more than ever! I feel like God is holding the fast forward button on his godly life remote, reclining back in his godly cloud chair in heaven....
solitary solidarity
"没事 (mei shi/no problem), I'll just have to get creative," he told us. In the school cafeteria, 2 Yuan can can probably buy Ryan a bowl of rice porridge and a piece of fried bread, but that's it. One of our students who excells at living a bargain...
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that’s no moon
Our clan of Americans climbed to the tip top of Moon Hill on an unfortunately dreary day. I remember feeling old because there were hundreds of steps to get to the first of two summits, and I actually had to take several breathers, and it wasn't d...
panda brawl!
I neglected to post a story about the second half of our travels during the winter holiday; so here is the first of a handful of videos I'm posting instead. This is in Chengdu, Sichuan, during the final leg of our journey. We went to a Panda park ...
Chameless
Unrelated incident.
