I’ve told you about cold side dishes before. Salted peanuts in vinegar are another both common and popular side dish in China. They often get served with any bigger meal and make a tasty addition to the other side dishes.
There are many reasons for why I love my job. One of them is that working with freshman students reminds me a lot of working with first graders. In high school, Chinese students – generally speaking – have to work and study so hard that literally they hardly have time to live, enjoy life, spend time with friends, develop socially. So, when they come to university, in many ways they are like little children, just discovering the world. Many a times, therefore, I’ve had it happen to me that I’d run into one of my students outside of class, and their excitement about seeing me overpowers any reservations – they wave at me with great enthusiasm, give me a big hug – just like a first grader would do – and tell me how excited they are to see me! Or they keep telling me about how they love their English teacher (that’s me!), and how beautiful they think she is (that’s me again – though basically every foreigner is beautiful/handsome in their eyes). Or …
Thanksgiving is right around the corner (at least for those Americans among us), and that means taking some extra time to think about what we are thankful for. Even if you’re not American, like I am, and don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, we always have reasons to be thankful for great and little things, so today’s journaling prompt is on the topic of thanksgiving. Have fun with these prompts, and don’t forget to link us up with your finished pages (if you used one of these ideas for one of your pages). The font used here is my own handwriting font DJB Squirrels In My Pants by Darcy Baldwin (available at the Sweetshoppe).
It wasn’t super early at the time, but I was still in bed the other day, when I received a message on my phone by my friend, telling me that she’d found a place on campus where there were plenty of leaves falling off the trees, lying on the ground, and no one around to rake them away – yet. Well, I answered, by the time I’d get there, everything was sure to be gone – remember the tree hitters? But then I decided to give it a shot anyways. I asked some of my photography friends to join, and we went over there, and were in for a nice surprise. There was the long, empty road, covered with leaves, and it was the perfect setting for this … And this … And here is even more … Saying Thanks And I’m thankful today that I’m done with classes, and that it’s a new day, of a new week, with lots of new chances.
Oh, I found gorgeousness again this week. Check out the gems I have for you today … Precious by Imgdonahue Starting off with a wintery page, today, my jaw still drops every time I see this layout. What a great job she did with the blending, the composition, the cluster, and everything else. And I don’t even have to mention that beautiful, beautiful photo! What a precious, perfect page! Pieces of You by Cynthia Next I got this piece of art, and I totally think it’s perfect with the artistic feel, the scattered pieces of embellishments, the various little clusters, and pops of colors, and I love how she cropped the photo. Paradise by DoggiNo Moving on to this gem, which caught my eye, because of its overall composition, its blending, and the addition of the word definition. If I wasn’t so excited about the upcoming Christmas season, I’d definitely be longing for summer again when looking at this page. Cousins by kathleena Having neither Christmas season yet, nor summer any longer, let’s stay with …
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. Stanley Horowitz
Credits: 12 Months: October by Penny Springmann Inspired by Feel the Wind
I found a new paper layout that got me inspired to create a new digiscrap version. Here’s “Feel the Wind” by Azumi: What caught my eye with this page was the playful composition around the photo, the paper pieces, and word art, and of course how she framed the part of the photo she wanted to emphasize. So, I took this layout and turned it into this … And if you are into P2D (paper 2 digi), then you should check out Azumi’s gallery, because it’s full of layouts that are a great inspiration for any digital layout.
Bake sales are great! They happen about twice a year, and it’s the one chance you get to indulge in western style baked treats. Our bake sale offers the full range of deliciousness: cookies, cupcakes, bagels with cream cheese, granola, and full size cakes. And this time they offered apple cider, coffee, and other hot drinks. There always is a silent auction for all the cakes, and the profits of the bake sales go to support orphans in our area. So, not only do you get to have yummy treats, but your treats also get to help children in need. What better way is there to indulge oneself?
