The day I heard about the invasion of Kuwait, August 2nd 1990, I was 14 years old and I didn’t want to be a nerdy kid who cared about world politics. In my school that got you nowhere. I wanted to care about the latest band, the latest song, shopping and hairstyles. (Like how to [...]
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Tomorrow I am going to Beijing. I have been asked to be involved in interviewing potential students for the school. I will be assessing their English level. It should be interesting. And if the students come to the school and can’t speak English, it will be my fault! I’m looking forward to the trip because [...]
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As I was sitting here reading and working on the computer, the TV suddenly came alive, scaring me near to death. HBO has been a black screen of death for a while and I had been hoping that something would come back so I left the TV on. Somebody downstairs must have started changing the [...]
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Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhh……. HBO is not working!!!!! It’s just as well. This weekend I tortured myself by watching some horrible “feel-good” Christmas movies, you know the ones that are all based on Scrooge, where a work-obsessed, greedy man or woman get hit on the head and wake up in an alternate life where they are poor housewives [...]
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Remember how I was saying that Shijiazhuang is the second most polluted city in China? This is what it looked like outside this morning: . . . . . . Don’t see anything above? Well, neither could I this morning, due to the extreme pollution cloud/fog/haze/smoke/wall. Literally, I couldn’t see more than 10 feet in [...]
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Oh, the excitement!!! Big news in our little hotel in the middle of rural China! You heard it here first! We now have satellite (how in the world do you spell that?) HBO! Evidently the hotel has bought a dish, or they have paid for the channels, or something… I don’t know how, but we [...]
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I'm an American expat living on the fringe of Chinese society. Thanks to a lifetime spent moving around, I often feel like an outsider. This blog explores life in Beijing, China, the occasional aviation topic, expat issues, random travel experiences and interesting things I see, read and hear. If you want to know more about my latest hobby, visit Sewing on the Fringe, where I blog about learning to sew in Beijing. And for daily documentation of Beijing's ever changing air quality, visit My Beijing Window. And, yes, I do wear my santa hat year-round. ;)
