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Whaaaa… falling behind here with the blog.  Seems we’re busier than usual these days…  and/or just totally engrossed in life here.  It’s all good and I have many updates to do.  Will try this week to get totally caught up.. … Continue reading →

I love what’s a little off the beaten path.  In Shanghai it was the Blue Nankeen backyard. In Hong Kong it was the fishing village of Tai O.

All OK in China, though it’s taken me a full week since our return to get to this first post about Hong Kong.  A busier and/or slower week than usual plus our internet connection has slowed to a crawl.  Again. … Continue reading →

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 →