Monthly Archives: March 2006

26 Mar

Red fish, blue fish

In America, some people clean their own fish. Most of them are fishermen, fisherwomen, and their very tolerant spouses. I never felt the need to clean fish. I was always happy to delegate that task to the professionals.
This afternoon, by necessity, I learned how to clean fish. They looked like filets [...]

23 Mar

Con Law 101

I am the foremost expert on American Constitutional Law in all of Jinzhou. I might even be the leading expert in all of Liaoning Province, depending on who the State Department has posted in Shenyang. Alan Dershowitz doesn’t come to this neighborhood.
The reason I mention this is because my boss, the Director of [...]

19 Mar

Restaurant Reviews, part 1

Oh, the restaurants of Jinzhou! There are so many places to choose from! I wanted to put together a list of our usual haunts. Unfortunately, I don’t know any of their names. Josh and I have our own descriptions of these places, and if you happen to be in Jinzhou, we can [...]

17 Mar

Gin-Joe Nightlife

There is a developing nightlife here in Jinzhou. People with money celebrate the weekend by taking their friends out to dinner, and then to Karaoke bars. At the end of the night they go out for barbeque. The foreign teachers are discouraged from taking part in all this rabble-rousing. We have [...]