post vacation update

Ok I'm back in Shenzhen. Well, I got back like 2 weeks ago. Vietnam was pretty cool, I stayed in Saigon and saw some museums and hung out. I stayed with a friend of Tam's (my friend in Indonesia) so I had a free place to stay so that was good. There's some pretty good food there. I ate a lot of pho. The vietnamese sandwiches are better back home, but they were ok there. Didn't do a whole lot except for relax and eat but that's the best kind of vacation.

I'm not working at Wall Street anymore. That's the adult english training center that I was teaching at last semester. They have a new thing where part time has to be 20 hours. That's too much for me, especially since I would have to work saturday and sunday, so I would have no days off from work because I teach at school during the week. There was a possiblity of me teaching elementary school kids after school, but I made sure the lady knew I was chinese american first. and she said she would rather not have me because the parents would complain. which is true maybe, but if they actually talked to me I'm sure they wouldn't mind because no one else has so far. that's the crappy thing about being a foreigner but not looking like one. so much discrimination. I speak and write better english than more than half the white people in this world.

But anyway, I'm still doing the voice recording. and it's turning out pretty well. they gave me and my friend eric a raise because they really like our voices. they want to make us the standardized voices for all their products. this company is called bu bu gao (bbk if you want to look it up) and they're a big company in china that makes electronic dictionaries and lots of electronic learning products. so that's pretty cool. there's a new commercial for the machine that I'm making recordings for, and my voice is on the commercial, which will be shown all over china. haha.

I also just recently applied for a job as a copy editor for the Shenzhen Daily, which is the english language newspaper here. there wasn't a job posting, but my friend who works there told me I should email the editor because he thinks there's an opening for a copy editor. so hopefully that will work out because it's nice to have other jobs that aren't teaching.

Other than that, I joined a gym with my friend Grace, so we're doing hot yoga 5-6 times a week. that's been hard, but good so far. it's only been a week. so I guess I'm doing pretty well over here right now. I hope everything is fine back home. Love you guys.

jen