Happy Chinese New Year Everyone! In case your lunar calendar isn’t properly set, this is the brand new year of 4708. (Makes 2011 seem so laughably young, doesn’t it?) In the Chinese zodiac, where every year is represented by an animal, it is also the year of the rabbit. Out
MCFC World Tour
That’s right everyone, take out your calendars and save up $8.95 because the world book tour, which started last month in China, will continue this month in the good ole U.S. of A. (Two countries is international, so there.) This is the only time we will be in the US
16 Hour Plane Ride and Reverse Culture Shock
For the first time in a year and a half we are stepping off of Chinese soil and heading back home. To be honest, I have mixed feelings. Of course I’m happy to be able to see my friends and family, and to eat bagels (with cream cheese and lox),
Wait a Minute, Chinese People Being Creative?!
It’s a stereotype, but also kind of true, that Chinese people excel in math and science, yet come up short in imagination and creativity. In fact, there have been a few polls in the news recently reporting just that. (And it’s a problem we come up against in the classroom
The Humble Administrators Garden is Anything But
With our winter vacation already begun, and three weeks till our trip back to the U.S. we decided to have a mini travel adventure. So we braved the Spring Festival crowds and headed to the ancient water town of Suzhou. Suzhou is close to Shanghai and is famous not only
Only in China
Thanks to the website ChinaSmack I found this amazing video. Apparently a rather poor woman, who’s rickshaw business was illegal, ran a red light and hit a man. In China small accidents are usually handled with a cash payout and the man was demanding money from the woman. She refused
Going to the Movies in China
Somehow I have managed to avoid seeing any movie in the theater since I’ve come to China. That all changed when I went to Harry Potter recently. To be honest, I’m not the biggest fan of the Harry Potter movies, but a friend from Chinese class asked me and I