#downtonfeels

This is a short update about why I haven't updated in like forever.

So basically, so much happened in my life. Like, at least a season of DA worth of things. I wrote a thesis, graduated from college, and then last July I moved to a rural province in southwestern China (Yunnan Province) to work as an English teacher for the next two years. Needless to say, my life has changed pretty drastically. My internet access was spotty for the first month I was here because I was at training where I was busy all the time and I could only go on the internet for like 4 hours every night and during those 4 hours I had to work on lesson plans and stuff, though now my school where I work has given me a shiny new router and I only teach 4 classes max per day, so Tumblr all day erry day/hanging around watching American TV with my Chinese co-teachers is my new reality.

One of my co-teachers is super into Downton, which is great. We've decided that she's Mary and I'm Sybil, since I'm more outspoken than she is. We watch Downton together during our lunch break, and I'm trying to get other teachers hooked on it as well. It's awesome to see that even out here in a village where I routinely have to avoid water buffalo poop when I walk down the street and I don't have indoor plumbing (but I do have remarkably high-speed internet...it's the little things), Downton is still a thing.