Yippee! I sent an official email in Chinese! (With a lot of help from my coworkers.) We wrote this beautifully polite email to ask the software company if Friday's classes could be moved up half an hour. They said yes…

I rode the train home from Chengdu with Claire and Todd. Learned about Sudoko. Laughed kindly at a student that came to talk to me and my daughter. On the walk home I saw a girl who's ridiculously high-heeled shoes ac…