Tomorrow is day one of our Chinese New Year vacation. We will be spending the 16th, 17th and 18th in Chengdu, in Southwest China. The 17th is Chinese New Year Eve and the 18th is Chinese New Year Day. The evening of the 18th we will board the train for Lhasa and 47 hours later [...]
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Spring Festival, aka Chinese New Year, will begin soon, and nowhere is it more evident then in the streets of China. All the restaurants and shops are gearing up for the festivities by decorating the windows, doors, entrances, walls, etc. with red banners and all manner of bells and whistles. The supermarkets are also selling [...]
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Tomorrow I will be embarking on an adventure around China with my mother, sister and sister-in-law. It will be a 4 hour journey for me to arrive at the Beijing Airport. For them it will be a long trans-pacific plane ride that, coincidentally, begins right now, half way around the world in Houston, Texas. (Better [...]
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Yes, that’s right, we will soon be on the road again (technically in the air) on our way to our quarterly vacation. This time we are headed to Malaysia! We will be leaving May 4th and returning May 14th. I will try to blog some updates along the way, but in case I can’t, I [...]
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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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Here is just a quick update of the blog. It’s been a while because I have been busy. Seems when you get 10 days off for a holiday, you always have to work like mad to get ready for it. You heard me right. Ten days. Our Spring Festival/Chinese New Year vacation grew from 7 [...]
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So far I have escaped any sort of bad luck today, but there are still 2 1/2 hours to go. Not much new around here, nothing too exciting to update. Tonight, with a few friends, we went to eat at the new Mansion Hotel’s western-style restaurant. It was pretty good, but I have to admit [...]
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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. ;)
