Lhasa
Saturday, February 27th, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Travel | 1 Comment »What can I say about Lhasa? I'm finding it very difficult to find the words. People lied down in the motorcycle lanes on the streets to do prostrations on their way to Jokhang Temple and the Potala Palace. I ...
Major updates
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in Travel | Comments OffPhotos that I said I had uploaded before have now actually been updated. Sorry for the confusion. I've updated my Location map to include the places I've been recently, and Suzhou and Shanghai, which apparently weren't on there from my ...
Arriving in Lhasa
Sunday, February 21st, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Travel | 1 Comment »That night, I still hadn't received my ticket to Lhasa, and I was supposed to leave at 8:45am the next day, so I sort of panicked. I called the travel agent and she told me that they thought they ...
Xi’an yet again, parting from the family
Sunday, February 21st, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Travel | Comments OffWe got to Xi'an the next day, and our hostel picked us up for free, which was really nice. We ate some good Chinese food at the hostel, then walked to the Bell and Drum Towers, but again, didn't ...
Nanjing wanderings
Sunday, February 21st, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Travel | Comments OffOn February 14th, New Year's Day, we went to the Nanjing Massacre Museum in the morning and spent several hours there. It was a really grim, really detailed museum of the things that happened when Japan occupied Nanjing before ...
Relaxing in Nanjing
Saturday, February 13th, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Travel | 1 Comment »It has been a relatively uneventful time in Nanjing. We arrived at the airport and took a bus to a stop where the woman said we would be able to see our hotel. Unfortunately, this was not true ...
Back to Beijing
Saturday, February 13th, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Travel | Comments OffThat night, we got on a train back to Beijing (we were all in the same cabin this time, so we all just felt much better). However, once we got to Beijing on Monday morning, we could not, under ...
Harbin
Saturday, February 13th, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Travel | Comments OffOn the train to Harbin, we tried to get our seats switched, but they couldn't find space. At this point, Josh was already asleep, and the people in Josh and my mom's cabin were pretty nice and spoke a ...
The Ethicist on Chinatown
Saturday, February 13th, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture | Comments OffI want to repost this from the most recent Ethicist column in the New York Times (it's the last of 3 letters) because it's a funny little bit about Chinese-American culture and it made me giggle. A market illegally displays fish ...
Leaving Shimen, Beijing via Xi’an
Friday, February 12th, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Living in China, Travel | 2 Comments »I had fully intended to write long posts about everything that's been going on, but it really has been the most hectic crazy time of my life. I'm going to try and give you the shortest version possible. I left ...