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CHINA INTERNATIONAL BEER FESTIVAL July 2005
CHINA INTERNATIONAL BEER FESTIVAL July 2005 Thursday, July 28 was the grand opening of the China International Beer Festival 2005. The festival is held annually for a week and a half at Xinghai Square, a mere ten minute walk from our apartment. However, the word “international” is dubious. The adjective could be interpreted to mean …
CHRISTMAS IN CHINA 2
CHRISTMAS IN CHINA (2) December 2005 Before I get on to important matters such as our Chinese Christmas, I want to tell you about my Outer Space Cup. As you know, here in China we cannot drink the tap water. So everywhere I go, I take a plastic bottle, which I can often fill up …
CHRISTMAS IN CHINA 1
CHRISTMAS IN CHINA (1) December 2005 This e-mail aims to answer all your burning curiosities about how Christmas is manifesting itself over here in Dalian, combined with some other random vignettes about how cold I am. I wake up in the morning and I put on my bathrobe before going to the kitchen where we …
STABBING DUMPLINGS November 2005
STABBING DUMPLINGS November 2005 At the end of one of my Monday night gatherings, my Chinese friends asked if they could make dumplings at my house sometime. I think that we have the largest kitchen in all of China, so it seemed like a good opportunity to use it. As soon as I agreed, English …
A ROOM WITH A KITCHEN
A ROOM WITH A KITCHEN (AND A BATHROOM!) September 2005 On Wednesday we moved out of our little apartment with a view to our grand new apartment. One of my adult students, Charlie, had been determined to help us ever since he heard we were going to move. We quite gladly accepted his offer which …
meet dalian
“Mom and Dad, meet Dalian.” September 2005 For the past week, my parents have been staying with us here in Dalian. They arrived at the Dalian airport on Sunday evening. I had invited one of my adult Chinese students, Charlie, to accompany me to the airport since Zac had to work. Charlie was thrilled, and …
6 months down..7 to go
6 months down…7 to go August 2005 We’ve been living our life of chalk and chopsticks for six months now. Our first semester at school is complete, and this week we finished up the exams, passed back their reports, played some games and said farewell to the kids we spent 2 hours with every week …
WINTER SNOW
FIRST SNOW OF WINTER December 3, 2005 Winter fluttered onto Dalian last night. This morning, we woke up to about 2 inches of snow and 28 degrees Fahrenheit. As we trudged along the slippery sidewalks to school, it reminded us of the day nine months ago when we first arrived in Dalian and it was …
NEW YEAR EVE
NEW YEAR’S EVE BARBEQUE December 2005 On the last day of 2005, we celebrated another year gone by with two of our good Chinese friends. We planned to go to a Korean restaurant, make cookie dough, throw firecrackers out the window, and watch a pirated Batman Begins DVD. We felt it was a suitably eclectic …
MOON CAKES September 2005
MOON CAKES September 2005 Today is the Mid-Autumn moon festival. Although the festival technically celebrates the end of the summer harvest, the coming together of family, and the worship of the immortal woman on the moon, the festivities are manifested mostly through the consumption of bean-paste filled moon cakes. For the past few weeks, shops …