This last weekend we went to Yangshuo in Guangxi Province. For longtime readers of this blog, you might recall that we began our China journey in Yangshuo almost seven years ago. Yangshuo was where we went for our TESOL training before we were sent to Lixian for our first teaching assignment. We have been in Read More
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Throwback Thursday – Our First Christmas
Happy Holidays, Dear Readers! I thought an appropriate Throwback Thursday post would be a picture of our first Christmas in China. Christmas is not very popular here, and it is even more rare the more rural you get. In Lixian, the Christmas hats we are wearing are about all the Christmas things we could find. Read More
Book Review: Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
Next year, I am planning to write the biography of a very dear friend of mine from LiXian who has led a fascinating life. To get myself ready, I have decided to start reading more life stories, fiction and non-fiction, of Chinese persons to get more familiar with the writing style. So, since I am reading them, I thought Read More
Who is this Zoe person?
So anyone who knows us knows we don’t actually have any children but our dream is to adopt a baby here in China during our stay. However, if you follow our blog or FB posts, we also often talk about “our daughter, Zoe.” So what is going on? Just to clear up the confusion this Read More
My Blonde Moment this week, or How to send money home
So this week after Seth got his first paycheck, we decided to go and buy him a new bike. The traffic isn’t as bad in the city as we feared and it really just makes life easier. And I know that Seth really needs the liberation of being able to come and go as he Read More
The Trip to Changde
So we made a trip to the nearest major town, that of Changde. Its about an hour and a half to two hours away from us, just depends on traffic. The actual capital of the province we are in is Changsha, which is about four hours away. We’ve been told there is a Papa Johns Read More
Haven't posted in while…
…because we haven’t been doing all that much. We’ve settled in and really started to hit up a routine. Get up, get dressed, go teach, go out to get lunch, get back, teach more, dinner trip into town, get back and watch tv we’ve downloaded. The other problem is there really isn’t much to see Read More
A Lost Temple
While we are certainly adjusting to life in Lixian, one thing that has been disappointing is the lack of sightseeing there is to do. This is definitely not a tourist area, this is just China. So if you want to go sightseeing at temples, statues, gardens, and pagodas, this is not the place to be. Read More