Despite living near Hangzhou for the last two months, I have yet to buy some of the local specialty: Dragon Well Tea. (Pronounced Longjing Cha here in China.) Longjing is not only a famous local tea, but it is one
Chinglish: More Funny Packaging
I love the peanuts here. They taste different then American peanuts, (it’s hard to explain how they taste different, maybe less sugary?) but I keep a bag in the house at all times. (I mean really, for 30 cents a
Halloween in China
Experiencing my first big “American” holiday out of the country has been interesting to say the least. Halloween is not celebrated in China, but they know enough that it is an American holiday, and a good excuse to have some
Our University
The University we teach at is called Zheijang Forestry University and true to its name, there is a lot of forest and natural beauty surrounding it. The campus is landscaped and planted, and trimmed and some spots are amazingly gorgeous.
Back to Class
So, the 8-day National Day/Mid-Autumn Festival is over and now it is back to the grind for us. We don’t have another day off until the end of the semester, so we have 3 solid months of work ahead. I
Photo Tour of Hangzhou
The other day Ryan and I went to Hangzhou to explore the tea fields. After all, I am a tea lover, a tea drinker and a tea reviewer, yet I’ve never seen tea actually growing in a field. To be
Chinglish: Chinese Packaging Edition
When you live in another country, one that you can’t speak or read the language, you notice everything that is in English. I find myself reading people’s English t-shirts, or reading small signs on a bus that happen to be
Hope You’re Not Hungry…..
I just thought I’d share one of our favorite meals here in Lin’an. Fried dumplings. Ryan likes the dumplings boiled in soup, I like them fried. Either way, they are delicious: And yes, drooling on your keyboard is, in this
Another Chinese Holiday?!
Okay, what can I say, I love China. We’ve only been here a month and yet it seems we have some sort of holiday every few days. First there was Teacher Day, then National Day, and now? Well, today is
Happy National Day!
60 years ago today Mao Zedong stood in Tiananmen Square, raised the national flag for the first time and declared the founding of the People’s Republic of China. They say there were 300,000 soldiers and spectators there that day. Well,