Category: blog post

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

Window of the World (also known as Colorful World) is a small, cultural theme park located in northern Changsha, the capital of Hunan. Address: 485号 Sanyi Avenue, Kaifu, Changsha Bus Numbers: 348, 132, 136, 109 (and possibly others) Cost: 90 Kuai per person, children (under 1.4 meters) and elderly persons are 45 kuai According to Read More

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

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

Today’s post is going to be pictures from Amanda’s camera. Just stuff that hasn’t made it onto the blog yet. To start off with, we were asked to participate in a race with the other teachers at the school. Here we are standing around wondering what’s going on and how this race will be done. Read More

By that I mean balloons. My family was kind enough to send a care package. Within the package were animal balloons. Blow them up and then twist them into animal shapes. This has proven to be a huge hit with the students. The students call them “Pow Pow”, as in “Give me a pow pow.” Read More

I finally figured it out, but wandering around town I noticed something which caused everything to fall into place and click in my head. My friends and co-workers at CVS should get a kick out of this. So on my resume it says I’m a Certified Pharmacy Techinican. It shows I went to school for Read More

So I’d stalled as long as I could, but finally decided that I needed a haircut. We went walking into town to try and scope a few places out and ended up deciding on one that looked a little fancy. I attempted to explain that all I wanted was a simple haircut by making scissor Read More

So I am making this post since Seth feels a little sheepish about it, but we had our first accident! Seth has written all about how it is crazy it is to drive in China, so it was only a matter of time before it happened. Thanksfully no one got hurt, at least not because Read More

…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