1 picture definitely speaks a 1000 words! Believe it or not, but it was many degrees below freezing, so standing with our pants around our ankles was no picnic. I was luckily able to stay somewhat warm running back and forth between the camera while we were getting... HAPPY NEW YEAR! We’ve just clocked into 2006 and it feels good. Last year was a great year and if the trend continues, this year will be equally excellent. I want to apologize to those of you’ve that have written me in the past two months without receiving... Hung-over, tired and with a funky stomach: I have to admit defeat. TheNingbo solution to jetlag (getting severely trashed forcing the body tofocus on getting rid of alcohol toxins instead of jetlag) did not workas planned in Vancouver. Since last time, I have studied... There I was standing in front of 50 Chinese students, when thetechnical “genious” on the faculty told me that the one thing I wasrelying on, the DVD player, wouldn’t work! So my preparations were shot and I had to wing a 20 minute triallecture that... (This was sent to all my friends on August 23rd, 2005 … 2 days before I boarded the plane bound for Beijing) What can I say? I’m a schmuck! Pick the most difficult language on the planet where 5 different turns the same word into 5 wildly different things!... It might not come as a big shock, but when I returned to Norway I was a changed man. I had been smitten and decided to return as soon as possible. Within one month I was back in China, which I guess shows just how certain I was. Moving to China meant turning... 