WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MARY?
(to see new updates, click on Mary and Michael 2.0 at the top of this page)
After a 4 week quarantine in various hotels in Shanghai and Zhejiang, Mary will be on the beautiful international campus of Zhejiang University. She will continue to teach the Rhet class for freshmen that she has been teaching for the last year--only now she will get to meet them in person!
HOW CAN I GET IN TOUCH WITH MARY?
Email should work once she gets on campus in mid-March, and probably also in the quarantine hotel before that. Try her at mary.lucille.hays (at) gmail.com. She should also be able to get messages at facebook messenger, WhatsAp, and Facetime (if you let her know ahead of time so she can have Facetime on her computer open). The only thing that won't work is texting or calling to her old phone number.
WHAT ABOUT THE TIME DIFFERENCE?
Great question! China is ahead of us by about half a day, so my mornings will be your evenings and vise versa. In the middle of your days I will be asleep. And China doesn't do daylight savings, so the difference will change when that happens. Here is a handy time converter from CST to China time.
CAN I SEND MARY A LETTER?
I think so. But I think it may need to be addressed in Chinese. I'll find out more when I get to campus and update this page with my address in Chinese that you can print out. Use international stamps. You can get them at the post office. (Don't try to buy them from anyone else. I almost paid $7 apiece for them from a third party, but they're only $1.20 from the P.O.)WHEN WILL SHE BE BACK?
Michael will meet me in Seattle on June 1, and we'll spend a few days with Chandra, then be home around June 5.
WHAT ABOUT BIRDLAND?!
I'll send dispatches from the far east and hope to be able to make my deadline every week. I'll try to do a better job of keeping my blog updated as well.
WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?
Put a question in the comments, and I will answer here!
