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 ...
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 ...
Crazy Beijing
Monday, February 8th, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Living in China, Travel | Comments OffTrust me when I say things have been too crazy for me to update. My family is here safely and we are enjoying ourselves, despite some random craziness. But I don't have time to talk about it now! ...
The decision I have made
Monday, February 1st, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Homesickness, Living in China, Teaching in China, Travel | 1 Comment »The decision I have made has been well-deliberated. The decision I have made has been debated and argued and thought about and meditated on and processed in all ways possible. The decision I have made is to come ...
Google and censorship are not friends
Thursday, January 14th, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Living in China, Tech/Site Issues, Travel | 1 Comment »It looks like Google might be packing up and moving on, having decided that it can't work within the framework of China's Golden Shield project (otherwise, and more famously, known as the Great Firewall of China, or the GFW). ...
Ringing in the Year of the Mood Swing in Xi’an
Saturday, January 9th, 2010 Posted in Tech/Site Issues, Travel | 2 Comments »Laura and I arrived in Xi'an and checked into our hostel. The central heating was on and it was positively toasty in there (take this from someone who's spent the last several months in three or more layers). ...
Between the holidays in Hanzhong
Thursday, January 7th, 2010 Posted in Travel | 4 Comments »I'll break this story up one more time so that the posts are a little easier to digest. This one is about what I did in Hanzhong before getting to Xi'an. Once I got to Hanzhong, I went ...
Christmas in Changsha
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 Posted in Travel | 2 Comments »My Christmas in Changsha was pretty laid back and relaxing. Matt arrived on Christmas Day and we had Pizza Hut for dinner, then headed to Folk Bar for some drinks. Aimee called and said she and Craig were ...