It’s Spring!
In Linyi the temperatures are up and the trees are budding.
And I’ve been doing some spring cleaning. Every once in a while I get inspired to change things up, and that’s what happened this week. Except I have ignored my house and instead decided to fix up this ‘ol blog. Lord knows it needed it, having sported the default wordpress theme for the last year.
I’m over my cold or allergies or whatever mystery illness kept me away from the living and I’m ready to revisit the blogging world. Stay tuned!
Photo by Steve Wall on Flickr
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I love the new design! Very attractive and easy to navigate.
Thanks Lori! I have become a bit obsessive about the design so there will probably be tweaks as the days go on!
Just looked through some of your photos… Interesting stuff. Thought I’d let you know though, it’s Xin Cheng Pu (New City/Town) It used to be called PuXiang (Little Village) until they basically scrapped the whole place and rebuilt it after Shijiazhuang was named the Povincial Capital.
We finally had our 4th baby! A little girl!!! The delivery was hell, but it’s over and we’re both fine. It’s hard to believe she’ll be three months old soon.
I’m done. No more kids.
The new layout is very nice, by the way.
Gotta run,
Liz
Hey Liz, Congrats on you baby girl! You’ve got quite the full house! Sorry to hear it was difficult, but at least you got a nice reward.
Also, thanks for correcting the spelling on the village – I think I got my version off of a building that was at the airport, I didn’t realize it wasn’t correct. As much as I would love to be able to communicate and integrate a bit more, my heart is just not in Mandarin. My passion lies with Arabic & Spanish. I envy people who came to China because of a deep love/interest in the culture/language/people. I love it here, but I find myself longing for some other places… and I’m afraid I’ve lost my motivation for Mandarin! Then again, some days I study and practice passionately. Others I sleep.
Haha… That is sooo China!
I understand what you mean about language. I could never learn Spanish because my heart just wasn’t into it. I love Mandarin though. Perhaps that’s because, as an artist, the ideographic language system makes a lot for sense to me? At any rate, am sure glad that I’ve met tons of patient, non-English-speakers who have helped me learn. I had no translator at the hospital. What genuinely surprised me was that I turned out not to need one… Except when they spoke in Cantonese. I have no time or desire to learn Cantonese, so someone had to translate it into Mandarin for me. If I had been placed in that situation 3 years ago, I think I would have had some severe battles with Panic.
Anyway, we’re actually going to be returning to SJZ soon… At least the kids and I. This place isn’t safe enough to send Sam to school. It’s a city of about 2 million, but there literally are only about 25-50 foreigners and we’re the only ones with kids.
Thank goodness for fearless little old Chinese women! Am sure you undertsand.
Gotta run…