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  • Hemmingway, Chiam Potok and most Russian authors:
    These are my "go-to" books.
  • Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

    Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    This is the one I last finished.... If you're interested in the Middle East/Islamic cultures, women's rights and/or the power of literature, you'd probably be a fan. I'm into all three of those, so, yeah, I liked it.

  • Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel

    Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel
    My sister is a big fan, so I've decided to check it out. A little more fantastical than my usual fare, but...pretty interesting. I am supplementing it with another book about a childhood spent in Africa so as not to feel too shallow. Not that fun books are "shallow." I just gravitate toward realistic (and, for some reason, usually dark) stuff. So this is different for me. But different might be ok. We'll see....

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August 12, 2007

All is Fair in Love and...Clark County, Washington

So, yeah, I did the whole "good aunt" thing and went to the fair with my nieces (and brother and sister-in-law).  Good times.  Then this past weekend, I kicked it with some old college friends.  My annual college alumni soccer game is this coming weekend, so this past weekend was kind of a warm up for that.  I haven't made the alumni game since 2003, so it should prove to be fun (and interesting, seeing as how I haven't touched a soccer ball in several years).  If the event doesn't totally polish off my already-less-than-stellar knee and end up laying me up for a couple weeks, I may even get some pictures up from it.  But, till then, here are some fair picts and one of "the ol' soccer gang," part 1 (Dale [AKA Amy], Wendy and Alyson [whose gonna have a little dudette in November - hoorah!]).

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Oh, and I liked the duck with the tuft on top of its head 'cause it reminded me of one of the ducks we had at ECHO (when I was living down in Florida).  Good ol' Tufty.  : )

Comments

Hi Red, So good to see/hear you! Wish I could make it this weekend but I'm here in Japan. Good luck! Sad knee.

That Tufty was the coolest duck...and I thought it was the only one like that ever. Didn't Andrew give it some special, very long name?

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  • *WHERE*
    Pasadena, California
  • *WHO*
    Well, I'm Andrea, and this is my blog. Other people's names will pop up now and then, too, but I'll try to explain those as I go.
  • *WHAT*
    I'm still working for the same organization with which I went to China...except now I'm in southern California, assisting OTHER teachers in China (and elsewhere in Asia).
  • *WHEN*
    After graduating college in the summer of 2001, I moved to China and taught English for a year. Then I returned to the States - first to the Northwest, then to Florida - until returning to China (Tibet) in the spring of 2005. After teaching there for three months, I returned to Florida (where I lived a total of almost two years)...then to the Northwest...then back to China in February 2006. I stayed there until July 2007. Then, after a couple of months with my family in the Northwest, I moved to California (September 2007)...which brings us to now. Simple, yeah?
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