Okay okay. Perhaps this is something that only my mom, dad, and grandparents will find any sort of satisfaction in reading since it’s just a whole big blather about my #hopes and #dreams—but what else is a personal blog for? Oh. fine. Relevant and witty observations on society in 2018? Meh. Skipping that for a […]
Author: THEaudrey
NOT. SORRY. It’s your turn.
Yes, I have become (overly?) obsessed with political podcasts and dare I say it, Twitter, during my time in China. At first it was just because I was lonely and needed to listen to other people’s conversations because I wasn’t having enough of my own… because the millions of people surrounding me in Kunming speak […]
Don’t read if you support the Patriarchy
I had one day of work left before my week-long summer holiday (I hang out with too many British people now and so I say holiday instead of vacation. All my dreams are coming true.) I still had to pack my bag, but very little stood between me a week of doing as-yet unspecified activities […]
Linguistics and Politics–but, like, hopefully more amusing
I am very proud to report that the way I spend my days in China has settled in to a vague feeling of the semblance of normalcy. Very, very, very proud. I think it took one month, two weeks, four days, and nine hours…. or somewhere around there. It took a damn long time, is […]
Why I hate American Colonialism and a Pillow
Here is one of the most depressing truths about China: the beds are as hard as Donald Trump’s resolve to continue making a fool of both himself and the United States of America. Seriously, it’s almost like I’ve embarked on a year long camping trip and forgot to bring my sleeping pad. That might even […]
The Acquisition of Bertha (written on my tenth day in China)
Ho-lee Mo-lee. I cannot even EXPRESS to you how uh-mazing China is. I just love love love every bit of it; the transition has been so smooth, I already feel like I blend right in, and I’ve got such a busy social life between expat friends and Chinese friends that I had to turn down […]
I think. I hope. And a dream.
The familiar sound of cars driving down Poplar Street were an immense source of confusion when I woke up this morning. I’ve woken up to that sound for the last eight months or so, and yet I still looked up to see the still more familiar silohuette of the rhodendron-like tree that stands outside my […]
Ugly bows and cries, plus a lil Cheese
I sobbed in my bed last night. It was the first time that I’ve sobbed in my bed in about two months, an odd amount of time considering the conglomeration of life events that have happened to me in that time span. Clarification: I’ve cried in plenty of other places, just not in my bed. […]
The first day of falling
Today is the first day of “fall” and to celebrate I’ve done nothing but lay in my bed and pretend I’m getting stuff done on my phone while netflix-ing. It’s Alejandra’s birthday, and I posted a picture of us from the beginning of summer. Last time the season was changing I was in Soria playing soccer […]
I think that it was in a dream sometime lately that someone said to me–no wow. It wasn’t in a dream, it was real, people are too kind–they told me that my writing sounded like me talking. That was the first thing I loved about this book. It sounded like the inside of the character’s […]