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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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February 10, 2008

Feels like here: Penang & Langkawi, Malaysia

So, I've clearly not been the best about posting during the last several weeks...sorry 'bout that.  But I can kind of sum up the last three weeks thus: working.  The conference went well, but it was definitely work.  Of course, if you have to be working in an office, you might as well be doing it in northern Thailand around friends, ay?  : )  So, yeah, I can't complain.

But on Thursday, work was over, and N & K & I were making our way here, to Malaysia.  We flew from Chiang Mai (northern Thailand) to Bangkok and stayed overnight in a place near the airport.  The next morning (Thursday?), we flew from Bangkok to Penang (and island), Malaysia, which is where we are currently.  Tomorrow we head up to another island - Langkawi.

And, per usual, there's lots to write about, but...once again, time at the internet cafe is out.  So, let me just say this for now: Malaysia is great.  Great people, great food.  Also, a very, very popular place during the Chinese new year.  So popular, in fact, that we were nearly had to stay in a brothel our first night here.  Luckily, though, we found another place.  So...all is well.  Never a dull moment, though.  : )

More later....

Comments

you're aliiiiiive...sounds like some good times going on, a brothel? man, you guys lucked out. looking forward to some pics and good stories :) whenever we drive by the airport, clover starts in with, "that's where andree lives".

i know you are a busy like crazy, i'm sure people are calling you crazy, there goes crazy andrea and there she goes again...anyway, where are you now? good getting little snippits here and there on the comments, looking forward to seeing you!

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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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