things to look forward to: 1. A brand new classroom set up which I love so much and cannot be compared to anything during last year's ar...

Here are some thoughts that I have...uh...thought...recently about what I would like to try and do differently next year in my second year o...

Usually, I should be at Chinese lessons right now. However, I lost the battle with a sickness that I have been trying to fight off for a wee...

In the winter months, when its thirty below outside and pitch black by five o'clock, what should one do? Perhaps read a book, put togeth...

Here is what our apartment looked like in September. It was even more different in August--wish that I had taken pictures of it then so you ...

Chinese Characters So, today in my Chinese lesson, my tutor and I started talking about the word "xin". It has two meanings: lette...

Sometimes...actually, most of the time, it is hard to judge how long a simple task or errand will take here. For example, when Adam and I we...

I was going to call this post something like, "before and after" or, "then and now", but actually, lots has happened in ...

Yesterday was our last day of teaching for the school year. We still haven't gotten used to the idea of not teaching yet. We feel like w...