Monthly Archives: April 2011

Miscellaneous = 其它 This was one of the words on a recent vocabulary list from Cece’s Chinese class.  An odd word to teach a beginning Chinese student.  I can think of hundreds of words that would be a lot more useful … Continue reading →

Another “catch up” post.  There’s so much happening here so quickly and so constantly that I think the blog will never be 100% up to date… So last weekend we finally took the girls to the Great Wall.  We were … Continue reading →

One morning last week when the girls were in school, Art and I found ourselves with a rare few hours with no classes to teach, no office hours, no meetings, and no skype calls with my office… so we did … Continue reading →

We’ve been in China for 10 weeks now and have met a bunch of amazing, smart and kind people.  Kirsty – one of the teachers at the girls’ school – is one of them.  She’s been in Beijing for 15 … Continue reading →

We came back from our Spring Break trip exhausted, but we were up early that Sunday, tempted by sunshine and blue skies in Beijing.  So off we went to the Summer Palace.  This is the Summer Palace.  Originally the “Garden … Continue reading →

For me, the best part of Xi’an was our Friday morning bike ride on top of the Xi’an city wall.  A perfect, sunny morning and an easy 9 mile ride (the top of the wall is flat).  Plus we got … Continue reading →

The father of one of Art’s students is a travel agent, and thanks to him we hooked up with a great driver (John; a really nice guy) for days 2 and 3 in Xi’an.  He picked us up bright and … Continue reading →

A really busy week here in Beijing and I’m falling behind with my posts.  Also kind of feels like the blog has turned into an endless stream of trip pictures with little about our actual day-to-day life in China… of … Continue reading →

Continuing Chengdu…

Whew… The girls were on Spring Break from BISS last week; time off that just happened to coincide nicely with Tomb Sweeping Day (Qingming Festival) on April 5.  This is a national holiday in China (honoring ancestors), so Renmin also … Continue reading →