Forget white Christmas! The Beijing smog is back after a week and half of clear blue sunny skies. (It may have been longer, but I wouldn’t know because I wasn’t here.) Looks like I’m in for a dirty grey Christmas instead. Cheery!
Edited this graf today: Salmon’s cultural awareness and passion make poignant contrast to the indifference of Hainan residents. To protect local culture in Hainan requires enhancing local people’s recognition of the importance of culture and raising their humane quality. Then the international traveling island of Hainan can be founded successfully. Besides sounding editorial, there was […]
Finally found a decent apartment for a decent price with decent roommates in a decent location. My bedroom is pretty small, my mattress a bit firm (but not plywood), and my window nook/balcony nonexistent, but I am satisfied. And moved in! It feels good to be organized again and not living out of three suitcases. […]
…back home. Here’s some evidence that God hates me: It snowed in North Carolina today, a week after I left. According to my father, they got seven inches, which is more than anything we got in the past few years. I swear, this is a sign that I made the wrong decision.
Baby, it’s cold outside. I’m parading around Beijing in negative temperatures. It hasn’t been above freezing (or anywhere near) in days. The lakes and canals are all frozen. Although, weather.com says it will be getting a little warmer over the next week. Signs of Christmas are scattered throughout the city. I’ve seen stickers on random […]
Last night here in the States for a year — unless I decide to blow all of my money on a plane ticket back home at some point. I’m hoping I won’t cave. Maybe I’m hoping that I will. So tomorrow I will be spending pretty much an entire day waiting at airports or on […]
Today is Dec. 4, three months after I accepted a job offer in China. I am still in the United States. The Chinese embassy has approved my visa (Z class, sometimes known as a Foreign Expert visa — thanks, China, for recognizing my brilliance!). I am cleared to go back to Beijing to work, and […]
I’m supposed to move to China at some point in the near-ish future. Besides finding random ways to improve myself and friends/relatives to pester, I’ve taken to filling my otherwise-useless time with creating things. I’ve turned to my trusty passion, cooking and baking, basking in the white side of me. Oh, how I love producing […]
Nothing like a good op-ed piece and a national birthday to reawaken my pro-China inclinations. The Grand Parade was certainly magnificent (you can always count on China to put on an over-the-top spectacle), but still super dry and hella boring. The only highlights were: When, during the flag-raising ceremony, the soldier threw the flag into […]
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