Winter / Chinese Eric talk! / Taiwan earthquakes and teaching / Landlocked navy

This thing just restarted! I was kinda going to play Wordscraper, but I should probably sleep now!

High-scoring word of the night:

WINTERS (111 points) - against Carol-Ann H. [5W, hook off SIZER for a plural]


Talked to Chinese Eric for about an hour before he left to go grocery shopping - it was good! He asked about Jon and Harmony, and marveled at Nathan's hockey dedication. Said he saw the lowlights from tonight's game - he's right that the boys are in danger of being bounced out of the playoffs! He went through a rough patch with Gena, but they're still dating... he also hopes to give me the computer in October or November, if things don't change even MORE with his job and Macau! We'll see!

Corey says there was ANOTHER earthquake over in Taiwan:

[00:14:17] Corey: I think there was an earthquake just now...
[00:14:31] Flami: oh, crap
[00:14:34] Corey: very mild, but I'm pretty sure it was shaking
[00:14:58] Corey: Jane is asleep, and it didn't wake her up at all or anything
[00:15:11] Flami: what time is it?
[00:15:38] Corey: 3:15 PM
[00:16:01] Corey: we had to wake up for my class
[00:18:10] Flami: ah yes... how did that go?
[00:19:26] Corey: well, they got bored at the start when I was trying to teach vocab words.. I was going to prepare an interesting way, but wasn't sure if I had the right book, so I didn't spend time on that. but they told me in the middle that they didn't need THAT much help with those words, so I moved on to more discussion things
[00:21:26] Corey: there were some different people there this week that talked more
[00:23:33] Flami: how much help were you trying to give them? :P
[00:24:20] Corey: it was about directions, so I drew a map and started explaining all the terms
[00:25:41] Flami: "this is north, this is south, this is east, and this is west!"
[00:33:17] Corey: no, I didn't get to those before they asked me to move on :P they were there, though
[00:38:21] Flami: haha... well, I guess that's good to know. what did you do, explain "this is a house and this is a park"?
[00:40:05] Corey: no, words like across from, diagonally, around, ahead, behind, escort, U-turn... I don't know, lots of stuff
[00:40:48] Flami: haha, okay. I guess that works
[01:01:07] Corey: I should find things other than the book to do usually though, that's kind of boring
[01:01:51] Corey: I'm also replacing basically the best teacher there (a guy from Vancouver, who left this area to go to Taipei), so almost no matter what the class is, it's going to be worse for them :P
[01:02:12] Corey: but they gave me one day's notice on it... so I didn't have time for tons of stuff :P
[01:02:15] Flami: VANCOUVER! YAY!
[01:02:21] Corey: this next week, I might be able to plan more
[01:02:25] Flami: no, I don't think you did have time for prep...
[01:02:27] Corey: that's my class now :P
[01:02:33] Flami: SWEET! :D

Trivia fact for Saturday, May 8: What South American country has a navy even though it's been landlocked since 1883? Bolivia, which lost 250 miles of Pacific coastline to neighboring Chile as a result of the War of the Pacific, which was fought for control of the nitrate-rich Atacama Desert.