Haunted House 2010

Because students have class on Sundays, we decided to have our Halloween party on Saturday this year. Doug and I asked our local tailor to make capes for us. Aaron was a clown/generic scary person.


Zhou Bing helped us again, acting as the fortune teller while Doug and Aaron scared students from behind.


I asked a few students to give me their best ghost faces...



Doug and my capes!


I dressed up as a witch this year!


Haven't figured out how to embed Chinese website videos yet, so here's the link to our Haunted House promo: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjE4ODMxNDY0.html

Tonight we're going to a kindergarten Halloween party. Will post pictures later!

Sights in Xiuning

Our neighbor's baby, Rae-Rae, is growing up. She's running around all the time now, so all the courtyard neighbors try to keep an eye on her. Like most babies, she likes to mimic adult behavior. One day, I found her dumping water on the ground only to sweep it away, as adults in China do when babies pee on the ground.



Doug and I were wandering around Tunxi last weekend, and we found some unusual (but typical in China) mannequins in one of the department stores. It's not even Christmas!


I got my nails done as well, and the little salon (which by the way is run by two 16-year-old girls) I go to has hair accessories. Aaron decided to liven up the mood of the salon with a tiara.


Halloween is coming up, so I decided to do candy corn nails!

Dinner #4

We invited Mr. Wang to dinner at our house. His daughter and grandson have moved back to Hangzhou (where they work). We sensed he might be experiencing the empty nest syndrome all over again. Our friend from Guangzhou also came to visit, so it was a good dinner with good company.

This dinner features egg plant, some sort of fern with onions, edamame beans with dry tofu (豆干), and egg pancake with chives (韭菜) (which I made!).

Dinner #3

This evening's homemade dinner includes broccoli quiche by Zoe...


Roasted tomato soup made by Doug...


Baked cauliflower and potato chips by Aaron, caramelized onions by me, and Doug and I made "zucchini" latkes/pancakes. They're modeled after delicious squash latkes called 南瓜饼, which we love to get in Xiuning.

Dinner #2

This dinner included spaghetti, with roasted tomato sauce. We also had broccoli cream soup. Aaron made stuffing from scratch, including the croutons. We also had egg plant again, a favorite. As an appetizer, we had salted peanuts.

New York Gala

Yale-China celebrates its 100th anniversary this year with its teaching fellowship. Most of us flew out to New York to attend the weekend festivities.

I met up with Mike and Andrew! We ate at Yum Yum Too, a delicious thai restaurant.


The Friday event was a health panel about "China's Contributions to Global Health." Sam J was my date!


Jeff, a former fellow in Changsha, came in from New Jersey to have lunch with me, and we went to the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA). Yale-China has an exhibit right now in celebration of its 100 years. We were very proud.


The grand gala event was Saturday from 5:30-10:30 pm. Skylar, my friend from Concert Band, came down from Yale to attend the celebration as well.


Mayor Bloomberg was invited to the 100th anniversary. Unfortunately, he was unable to attend...

... so he declared that day as Yale-China Association Day!


The evening had a few panels featuring alumni of the teaching fellowship.


These are some of the pictures from Pratt House where the celebration was.








This was my French Connection dress, which I was so excited to wear!


Our flights to and from New York on Continental Airlines featured individual screens with hundreds of movies and tv shows to choose from. A+ Continental!


We flew over Greenland and you could see the edge of the sun's glow in the horizon.


On the flight, we had Haagan Dazs for the mid-flight snack!


That's all for now! Tonight we rest in Shanghai at a friend's house. I will be back with more pictures!