Yea, this guy backed into Ronald McDonald. Then he pulled out of the parking spot and tried again, very nearly repeating his initial crash. Ronald was a little scratched, but I’m sure it’s nothing he hasn’t seen before. See more Wordless Wednesday.
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A recent post in the English-language China blogosphere has prompted me to take a closer look at my behavior as an expat in regards to integrating in the culture and making Chinese friends. Those of you who know me know that I am, among other things, painfully shy. Which probably explains why I have very [...]
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Reading this week: Tibet as ‘Hell on Earth’ by Elliot Sperling in the Far Eastern Economic Review Was Tibet “hell on earth” before the Chinese “emancipated the serfs” in 1959?Is it “hell on earth” today, as the Dalai Lama believes? Sperling, the director of the Tibetan Studies program at Indiana University’s department of Central Eurasia [...]
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McDonald’s has conquered the world, this we know. There is hardly a spot left on the planet where you can’t find McDs, Starbucks (AKA fourbucks), or Pizza Hut. In China, the McD workers get to wear special McJeans. Do your local McD employees wear them? These photos were difficult to obtain. I don’t know if [...]
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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. ;)
