An American Expat in China

It has been a while since my last post but besides a few small things, and one major thing, life has continued with little to update.   After our last trip during Golden Week Faye spend a few days a week at our new apartment and would periodically go back to her place in Bao'an to do laundry and bring over small bags of items. On October 18th I found a cool bug and took a photo.  It is called Batocera rubus  and its common name is rubber root borer. On October 19th our school started to decorate for Halloween.  They went with a Harry Potter theme and it turned out pretty good.  On October 28th I laid the trail for the Halloween hash. It got washed away twice and nobody stayed on trail but it was still a good time.  I went on a bar crawl afterward but was so tired from laying trail in the rain that I really didn't have a very good time.  Faye moved in on October 29th.  We have had a pretty harmonious experience of living together for the past ...

 Faye and I enjoyed a lovely trip during the Mid-Autumn festival and Golden Week.  Our first stop was Bankok.  We stayed in Dusit Suites Hotel.  I am honestly a bit disappointed we only stayed there for one night.  Unfortunately, the first night of our vacation was spoiled by a medical issue that had me in hospital.  While the doctor claims that the weed which I had smoked was the cause, weed has never sent me to the hospital before.  I know for certain that it was a combination of factors including dehydration, not having a substantial meal for over 10 hours, exhaustion, travel fatigue, and over-heating that had me feeling faint.  My heart rate slowed down to 70bpm, my extremities went numb, and I could not stand up without feeling like I was going to pass out.  As someone with a medical marijuana card, who regularly used to smoke some of the strongest weed and weed extracts, I know for a fact that the weed alone was not responsible for me g...