Happy Sunday.

My Shanghai-based boss and co-worker were in town this weekend for a seminar, training, and "field trip." 

It's been busy. 

I feel very much like an adult. 

I have taken account of my patience, crisis-management skills, and managerial skills and find them all to be elevated from the past but also eligible for upgrades. 

It was a good working weekend. And now the work week begins. Bah. 

There is a new hire coming onto our team (thus this weekend's training) and my work load will be decreased next semester by 1/3. This is a blessing because I currently work over 40 hours a week as a part time adjunct. (Thanks to Hangzhou's crap traffic and the location of my students and their schedules). My work load will go back down to around 25 hours a week and life will be more "do-able" for a ding-dong pretend adult like me. I took on an extra class this semester in order to help a co-worker and this has proven to be more than I can handle with a dissertation to write in Ch.inese. But everything works out and our new adjunct is great, so I am pleased with how life always works out. It really always does. 

Overall the weekend was a success and I was happy to have some "face-time" with my students and boss/co-workers. It's nice to be together as a team since I work independently from them here in HZ. Teams are so important. 

Anyways, because I am limiting my work discussions here in e-world, here are some pictures and captions from the weekend, mostly from today's lunch at the Longjing tea fields....enjoy...

Zhejiang University Xixi Campus

Green tea...

My co-worker and I stopped to take pictures of each other on our phones...

trekking through the fields to get to our restaurant...

Yum-city...

then the boss lady brought out tea from three different picking times for my boss to sample and purchase...he is a tea connoisseur...

we sampled the three different teas and noticed the leaf shape and size (smaller is better)...

Longjing tea...Hangzhou's specialty...

riding the bus home...

I hope your weekend was wonderful. Happy Sunday.







walk slow. xoxo.