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In My Backpack

  • 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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April 02, 2008

Sign-filled

Still working on the Middle East picts album....  I know, I know.  But stop judging me for my incredible slowness, and just check out this link (another one from JD): http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/  As we all know, I like weird/humorous wording on signs, and this fits along with it - it's a tribute to unnecessary quotation marks.  Because, hey, aren't we all "guilty" of this, at times?

And since we're on the topic, here are a few of my favorites that I took during my last trip (all were in Israel).Img_2622 

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Comments

Howdy! I just came upon ur blog again...it's good to catch up on your life! :) Looks like you have been quite the world traveler lately...and I must say, I am a little jealous! I would love an update! ~Texas

so good, how can you go wrong with those signs, BRILLIANT!

Very important to leave your guns outside.

This post reminds me...are you keen on a new banner, or are you still digging this one?

And also, why haven't you visited my blog in ages? Do you hate me? Even Jake visited me today. AND left a comment. So. There you go.

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Backstory

  • *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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