Bike spray painting

Check it out! My friend Kyle made the Nanjing news in a two minute puff piece: 30元换新装：老外校园摆摊给自行车美容

When we lived in Nanjing, my friends and I all got cheap bikes to cruise around town and tempt death between busses and a nation of people who all only just learned how to drive a few decades ago. However, it's pretty easy for bikes to get stolen--and often returned to the place you just bought it from to be sold again--since all clunkers look the same.

Kyle solved that problem by making stencils of flames, scallop shells and stars and spray painting bikes so they would stand out and theives would pass them by. For 30元 (yuán) or less than $5 US, Kyle will paint up your bike in a couple minutes flat.

Thanksgiving in China (Originally posted Nov. 28, 2010)

So China does not actually celebrate Thanksgiving--as I'm sure you've gathered--but where there's a will, there's a way. Since turkey (or 'fire chicken' as it's called here) is hard to come by, let alone cook in our tiny kitchen, buckets of KFC were substituted. Everyone prepared a dish or brought out the wine and we were able to expose a few curious Chinese friends and bemused British ones to an American Thanksgiving in our building's computer room.





Pictures stolen from Cassie and Thomas, whose blog you should check out for more adventures in Nanjing ♥


Also, my students were genuinely impressed by my mad hand-turkey drawing skills. Finally, my elementary school education is coming in... handy.

Badoom-CHA.