<p>New York airports closed. US Air cannot accommodate my return ticket until Friday! I am paying a fortune to Southwest to leave Wednesday via Chicago and am finding solace in trying restaurants. Poor me!</p>
<p>NOLA: Not a bad place to miss Hurricane Irene and its aftermath</p>
<p>So far:
dantes kitchen
camellias grill
le meritage<br>
maple st patisserie
olivier
american sector</p>
<p>Thinking about Acme Oyster House for lunch today</p>
<p>Tonight: The Hurricane Katrina memorial and mural unveiling ceremony and second-line, featuring Rebirth Brass Band and poet Chuck Perkins, 6 p.m., 900 Convention Center Blvd. March ends at 212 Loyola St.</p>
<p>That’s right, keep rubbing it in. We will get you for this.</p>
<p>On another note, my D just flew to Beijing yesterday (made it fine, btw). She was scheduled to fly out of JFK, obviously that wasn’t happening. Since I was going to Toronto on business anyway we rearranged and she flew out of there. I think it is hilariously ironic that my D goes to school in New Orleans and the only hurricane that has affected her so far has been in New York/New England.</p>
<p>Hey FC–I’m just trying to catch up with you, idad and jym626!!!
Btw, Acme was a disappointment for lunch. So I continued eating at Felix’s which is right across the street and loved it. Jambalaya, etouffee, red beans.
Wishing your d a wonderful year in China. I, for one, would like some food commentary!</p>
<p>You mean food commentary from China? If so, she is a foodie and will be happy to give details I am sure.</p>
<p>Hi, FC. If possible, will you share some info? What’re your d studying in China? What’s her major in Tulane? My D may want to study in China too.
Thanks,</p>
<p>Our family currently lives in Shanghai (not including my Tulane son). I’d also like to know what your daughter thinks if the food here!</p>
<p>haha2k - Absolutely happy to share. It is a bit complicated, but I will try and make it clear. The first part is simple, she is a China Studies major. English also, but that isn’t important here. Exactly what they are calling the China Studies major these days I have to see, it was evolving. I think it is still a coordinate major, where you actually major in history or something else and focus on Asia (China in this case, Japan and Vietnam are also prominent). That was going to change to a straight China studies major I thought, but perhaps that was not able to happen, or at least not yet. Not that there is really a big difference, I don’t think. Or maybe they have made it a major in Asian Studies with a focus on China. I am not really sure any more. They say it is an Asian Studies major but call it a coordinate major. I don’t know exactly what they mean. <a href=“http://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/asian-studies/majors.cfm[/url]”>http://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/asian-studies/majors.cfm</a> I guess it is like I said, you take 18 courses of which at least 2 are an Asian language and 7 are from the list of Asian Studies courses, but you have to also fulfill the requirements of a “regular” major like history, anthropology, linguistics, whatever.</p>
<p>So she could have gone to Beijing as part of the Tulane program, but the Chinese government also has a program where they offer some students complete scholarships to study in China for two semesters. Everything but airfare. She applied for that and finally heard that she got it. They don’t tell you until something like early July, so it gets kind of tense. Hard to do what you need to for the Tulane program in case this one doesn’t work out and still be ready to accept this one if it does. The nice thing for her because of this is that she is basically taking a leave of absence from Tulane to do this program, and she gets to keep her DHS for the year she isn’t using it. If she had gone on the Tulane program Tulane would have paid her tuition there but of course that would be like the 3rd year of her DHS and we would have to pay room/board (and Tulane fees). Now she can take a 5th year as an undergrad if she wants and still do it on the DHS.</p>
<p>But anyway, she is at the Beijing Foreign Studies University [Beijing</a> Foreign Studies University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Foreign_Studies_University]Beijing”>Beijing Foreign Studies University - Wikipedia). Since she just got there today I have nothing to report yet, but I will try and give updates every now and then. Maybe I can convince her to start a blog.</p>
<p>FC–Thank you very much for sharing this info. You should get an award from Tulane for helping a lot of applicants to know Tulane better.
Congratulations for your D with the DHS in addition to the scholarship to study in China. I believe it must be very competitive to apply there too. Beijing Foreign Studies University is an excellent place to study. Most of Chinese translators around the world trained there.<br>
I wish she likes the weather as well as the food there beyond studying.
Hope to hear more from you.</p>
<p>Best wish and thanks again.</p>
<p>Thank you haha2k. I have heard that the weather in Beijing is generally awful, with very hot summers and very cold winters. But I am sure she will very much enjoy exploring all aspects of life there, scholastic and otherwise. She was thrilled when she found out they were placing her at this university. It was exactly where she wanted to be.</p>
<p>Wow- good food and fun travels. No fair!</p>
<p>I will look up all the yummy places we ate last spring. Wish I could remember all the names.</p>
<p>Hi JYM–I ended the trip with Emerill’s (good) and Central Grocery (disappointing). Waiting to hear from FC’s d in China as to her foodie adventures.</p>
<p>Nothing much to report yet, she is just getting adjusted. She has already met some nice fellow students apparently, so that will help a lot. She says the air quality in Beijing is really poor, just like we have all heard.</p>
<p>Hi Vitrac and fc!! Another year together here!</p>
<p>Looked back at the last trip- We ate at Upperline, Dick & Jenny’s, The Pelican Club and Dante’s kitchen. There was somewhere else we wanted to go, but couldnt fit it in that night. Turns out it was the night Nicolas Cage was there and later arrested for public drunkenness or assault or something. Only in NOLA!</p>
<p>Ahh-- the one we weren’t able to get to was Stella.</p>
<p>We went to Stella last year. Outstanding and memorable. But fancy.</p>
<p>What does DHS stand for? Thanks.</p>
<p>deans honor scholarship</p>