Xiao Nan Guo Spa is on Hong Mei Lu behind their Restaurant

I'm waiting for the copious rain to stop, even though Accuweather tells me that it is only partly cloudy with a real feel of 104F.

The ambitious project of interjecting a writing composition program into a great overall language textbook program, means my peer level colleague I will be completely reinventing the syllabus. This had me up late bookmarking parts of an online writing program I love and would share if you e-mail me.

Almost two years ago, I bought Kathleen Grave's Designing Language Courses, and it was daunting; now I have enough experience to know enough to be exhausted by how much I have still to go over, then make choices in activities, content, assessment, pace.

Meanwhile, back in Expatistan the poor K-12 Asian parents are still getting sold on the American or British textbook series because they are "gen-u-ine" and "bona fide" and in their own education, I include myself, never get to the table of discourse about 101 million items about child development and learning, that there is even a discourse.

I am now wrecked, lazy or waiting for the rain to stop to go out and exercise.

Privacy is something of a thing of the past if you're using the Internet. I lose mine, you use yours. I didn't want to put this on my site, but I admit that recently I began a free trial of a service that gives me a general idea of where some visitors come from, usually not an exact location but if you use www.web-stat.com there is a world map.

Sometimes if someone uses a "google" search it generates "referrers" and the string of words, such as the title of this post. This is a service that is better for people selling to determine how to market, but I am a curious individual, and I get excited when I see a place on the world map that someone actually shows up as having visited my site. I don't know much more about you than what you can find at www.web-stat.com if you start your own account.

So far, I see India, Kansas, Venezuela, Germany, Australia, etc. and it is humbling to know that some of you don't have any interest in my writing but are looking for "Ringtones" by Stevie Wonder or other items in the titles of my posts. Somebody clicked on an old photo in which we now look entirely different, but that's the price of admission to exhibition. As you may have read (???) I do this for myself, a pledge to write everyday, and to share information.

But if you do read with benign interest or even enthusiasm, please comment, even anonymously. I probably only see those people not going through a feedreader, such as My Yahoo or Bloglines, where you can choose there to be an anonymous subscriber.

Bon Weekend, I am getting ready for a date with the "lao gong" or husband, to celebrate two years in China, which is five to seven in China years. If you have been here, you know I'm telling you the truth and there is no exageration in this subjectivity. More happens, you live more intensely than in the comfort where you have your bearings and speak the language and other generalizations.

The rain has stopped. The husband will leave work soon. I must get gussied up from a day working at home, not in pajamas, but fairly dishelved. Bon Weekend!