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Haven't posted here in a bit because I was out of the country and roaming charges are made for data entry. I have been back about a week now, to quite, and although I know I have a lot to do, I am slow to go about getting it done. Well I suppose that isn't entirely true, I have been in the classroom twice this week already, I have payed some of the bills, cleaned p the house and got out tagging stuff last night. I think graffiti is like tattoos in a way. Once there is one, a person wants more and more. Even this morning I was thinking about somehow tagging stuff along my way. While I have beengood at brinstorming ym ideas for the change in classes I haven't done any work when it comes to writing out my plan. And I have a new grade level to teach this year which means I need to develop lessons from scratch. Basically it is a lot of sitting still sort of work, which I am fine with, especially in the evening, but the last few evenings I've had things to do and being that this is the last week before school starts (guaranteed we won't have any time to work on this stuff during the first week of school). So it is looking like while I will get some done here, I will still be playing catch up during the school year. The band had it's first gig last Saturday. I wasn't totally satisfied but I wasn't disappointed either. There were problems with it but I didn't take it at all so seriously. It's just a gig and it'll get better as tie goes on anyhow. I am more interested in our photographer Liang Du. She has been using Lomogrpahy cameras to make the photos (see link) and the opportunity to work with her has been really good. I am quite into this idea of imagery and while I am not a fashion photographer I like the idea of working with a brand or an image of a thing. The black and white photos she took are excellent (did I already say that?) and we are planning a photo shoot. I don't know how much the band is into it, but they are kind of grumbly anyway, they'll do as I ask I a sure. It's fun building something like this. I was in Hong Kong last week for a photography course. Fantastic, a lot of studio work and good people to work with. However, I think the best part was being in HK. I am growing more and more tired of Beijing and China in general these days and HK, while technically China, is not at all like China and pretty isolated anyway. Really, I feel strongly about making that my next move.