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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
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
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....
Fellow Travelers
- Ben & Becky: ECHO friends
- Bri: California friend
- Daphne: ECHO friend
- Darren & Angela: ECHO friends
- David: Portland friend
- ECHO: former employer
- JD: California friend
- Jen: college friend (Japan)
- Kara: China friend
- Katie: Texas & China
- Micah & Becky: college friends
- Nick & Kim: China friends
- Outside-In: China
- Rachel: ECHO friend (Peru)
- Sara H: ECHO friend (Ethiopia)
- Sarah: sister-in-law
- Steph: sister
- Stitch: ECHO friend
- Tim & Paige: ECHO friends
- Ty: older bro
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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?
