Wander Life: Travel

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....

December 25, 2005

Been to China, been to Haiti, been to Tibet, been to London, Paris, Florida, and Arkansas.

Going back to China.

Wander along.

December 25, 2005 at 07:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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?

July 2008

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