Christmas is over, the semester is wrapping up, time for a year-end wrap up! Chris Guillebeau, over at the Art of Non-Confomrity advocates doing a yearly review to keep track of all the things you have accomplished in the past, and all the things you hope to accomplish in the upcoming
My Delicious Racist Dinner
Last year, on Christmas Eve, the foreign teachers were invited to a special Christmas buffet held at a nearby 5-star hotel. The meal is normally 600 rmb, a kings ransom (to put it in perspective, 600 rmb covers 6-months of my water and electricity bill, or an entire year cell
Looking for that Old Christmas Feeling in China
When I lived in America to say I was burned out of the holiday season would be an understatement. I was tired of the consumerism, tired of the holiday pressure and tired of feeling like a total glutton eating all the delicious food that was laid in front of me.
The Modernization of a Chinese City
If you want to get a taxi you need to stand on any street and just start waving frantically. Lin’an, small city though it is, has plenty of taxis. The problem is finding one that will actually take you where you want to go. You see, taxi’s here are more
Adding Another Place on the 'Must-See' List
I got another interesting China Vimeo movie to show you. This one, called Ordos, is about a group of skater who went all around this newly built city in Inner Mongolia skating all over the place. The city had millions of dollars poured into it, creating the infrastructure for a
My Favorite Apps for Working and Living in China-Part 3
This is the third and final post recommending apps for living and working in China. In case you missed the others, you can find Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. I’ve already covered Chinese specific apps for daily life, and apps for learning chinese, but what about non-specific apps
Making it Official: My Chinese Boyfriend
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog entry about dating in China. But here’s my little secret. When I published that I was already off the market. For the past few months I’ve had a Chinese boyfriend. He’s actually shown up a few times on this blog. Maybe the
My Favorite Apps for Working and Living in China- Part 2
The other day I introduced several apps that I find make life in China easier. Today I’d like to recommend a few more specific to learning Chinese. While I like learning Chinese I’m especially bad a picking up a book and sitting down to study. That’s why I like apps
My Favorite Apps for Working and Living in China–Part 1
To know me is to know I love my iPhone. I was quite late to the game (I got my first iPhone 6 months ago), but I’ve been an iPod owner for the past couple of years. I originally bought the iPod touch for the dictionary app. About 2 and
Taro Pudding and Late Night Noodles in Fuzhou, China
A few weeks ago my best friend Color had some job training in Fuzhou and asked me to visit him. Always one for adventure I said why not, bought a ticket and 4 days later was on my way to see him. Fuzhou is located in southern China, on the