[okazu]

It’s hard to believe that classes will be over in eight days.  I’ll be staying in Kunming until August 12, and I’m looking forward to actually getting to know this city a little better.
This is what I plan to do with my downtime.

It is my current goal to be able to read The Little Prince [...]

Moments ago, it occurred to me that I have never bothered to look into what the two characters in ‘okazu’ mean in Chinese. Together, as far as I can figure, the two are pretty much gibberish. The character 御 (yù) means to defend or resist and the character 菜 (cài) means a [...]

Things I have learned this week:
If something in the dining hall looks like beef, it is probably not, in actuality, beef. Or, if it is beef, it is either an organ once belonging to a beef, or a baby beef.
It’s okay that the Chinese language is not my main course of study. I [...]