Today is the last day of work (yay!!), but we don't leave Beijing until next Saturday. It's not because we wanted to just stick around the smog, but because our visa is being processed by the government. Basically, to do things by the book visa-wise, you have to convert your working visa into a short … Continue reading How We Almost Got Stuck in China
Teachers have some of the best stories. In this post, I've compiled five funny stories that have either happened in my or Alex's class or to another teacher in my school this year. I've also included some cute photos from my classroom this year. Quick note: the photos are not of the kids mentioned in … Continue reading Kids Do the Darndest Things
So for those of you who saw my purposefully vague Instagram/Facebook post, this is the follow up! What had happened was, I was contacted by the head of Culture Yard, our old language school, because his friend was looking for a foreign woman to be in a promotional restaurant documentary, *raise hand here* carpe diem … Continue reading My Day as a Chinese Actress
While in the home tour, I may have bemoaned our lack of kitchen appliances, truth be told, occasionally we've made some good food. Since it's probably still to hot to want to turn on your oven, here are 3 meals that you can make with nothing but a hot plate. Grilled Cheese I'm just going to … Continue reading Hot Plate, Good Food
So, not going to lie, there is a lot of good tea in China. I often buy loose leaf and bagged tea at the grocery store, but Alex and I have also treated ourselves twice to a fairly magical afternoon tea at Theatre Tea. Theatre Tea is a sweet shop in the World Financial Center, … Continue reading For All the Tea in China
Most of you know that we have a furry addition to our family who goes by the name of Albus Lowry. When we were thinking about getting him, I looked into how difficult it would be to bring him home. The US doesn't have very strict quarantine laws about dogs so we took it as a … Continue reading How to Move a Dog from China to the US
Good news-- we've found that the date we will probably be flying out is September 16th! As the weeks wind down, we've been trying to revisit our favorite spots and cross off any Beijing bucket list items still remaining. While there are lots of markets in Beijing, I've always wanted to check out the LaiTai … Continue reading LaiTai Flower Market
I find a kind of perverse pleasure in finding typos. I really love to find them in books or published content. That being said, I know there are probably some typos some of you readers have found on this very blog-- the idea kind of haunts me. Anyways, here in China, it's almost too easy. … Continue reading Lost in Translation
*Warning this post contains spoilers.* At the end of last week, I was a bit sad. Sure Daenerys still has two dragons, but now a tale of ice and fire is getting closer and closer. In honor of the two remaining dragons, I went out and bought two dragonfruit. Like my discovery post about mangosteens, here … Continue reading Just in Time for the Game of Thrones Season Finale
The past year, we've had a lot of changes, and this has been true in our home as well. I first put up photos of our apartment in this post, Home Sweet Home, and I thought it would be fun to do a follow up where you can see the changes we've gone through. I realized … Continue reading Then and Now, A Home Tour
