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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

In the middle of town is a Confucius temple that Seth has mentioned before. It is much nicer than the country temple (even under renovations) and even has a small gift shop, lol. The main shrine room reminds me of the temple of Guan Yin at the Nelson Atkins Art Museum in Kansas City, one Read More

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

So we have been finding more and more weird little fun things to do in town. In the huge pedestrian market we found an indoor skating rink on the top floor. It has been years since I’ve gone skating, but thankfully, a very nice young man helped me get the hang of it. *grins* Unfortunately, Read More