Life in China and Other Expat Tales
From the category archives:
What I’ve been reading this past week (er, weekend actually.)
China:
Five Myths About China’s Economy – Washington Post 11 April 2010 – HT to @NiuB
Stability Preservation in China – ChinaGeeks 10 April 2010 – HT to @GraniteStudio
The World:
Unrest in Thailand – The Big Picture from The Boston Globe 9 April 2010
If You Want to Understand Kyrgyzstan, [...]
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Photo Friday #28
Not a photo and not taken by me, so technically I guess this is not really Photo Friday material. Nevertheless, I couldn’t help but share this vintage advertisement as it does combine two of my passions: travel and Spain.
BTW, I think you’re more likely to encounter a redhead in Galicia or Asturias
And it’s [...]
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Emergency Preparedness Day
From my office at Linyi airport I hear various sirens – sirens that are recognizable as police and ambulance. What is going on? The windows in my office look directly into our school’s aircraft hangar, but I cannot see any further. Couldn’t see further if I wanted to anyway, as this morning a [...]
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Learning to Talk on the Radio
“Internet, Global Gal 1976, Good Morning.”
“Good Morning, Global Gal 1976, Go ahead.”
“Global Gal 1976, We will require a delay of several days in posting to blog due to imminent ICAO Aviation English exam and realization that we do not know how to talk on the radio. Request radiotelephony cramming sessions.”
“Approved, [...]
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reading/thinking about today:
Here’s an update on the company dinner last night: two words – warm beer. Enough said.
In other randomness:
The pneumonic plague has struck China, and as alarming as that might seem, I could barely be bothered to keep up with the news. I know it is isolated to some village in the northwest. I [...]
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What a day. It is cloudy and rainy. The perfect day to be at home in bed. I have been tempted multiple times today to just put my head down and sleep. Instead, I have been researching ticket options for our upcoming trip to Spain. I am always astounded by prices. But what can you [...]
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This afternoon, just before I left work, I spent a few minutes on Twitter asking a question of fellow foreigners in China when I saw a tweet about a possible air plane crash on the Thai island of Koh Samui. I know this island well as I spent Chinese New Year there two years ago [...]
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I'm an American expat living on the fringe of Chinese society. This blog explores life in China, the occasional aviation topic, expat issues, random travel experiences and interesting things I see, read and hear. 
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