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THE CAR IS ON THE SIDEWALK

THE CAR IS ON THE SIDEWALK November 2005 Hello Everyone, So Sera and I have been in Dalian now for eight months and we have adapted pretty well to our temporary life here. China is much different from the States, but of course that’s largely a good thing for us. I privately rejoice whenever I …

BEIJING

BEIJING October 2005 WELCOME TO BEIJING, Population 15 millionWe arrived in Beijing at daybreak on National Day. We would be staying in Beijing for six nights and planned to see all the attractions that self respecting tourists should see. My parents and Zac and I had left Dalian around 8:30 the night before and spent …

The bus to Shangri-La

THE BUS TO SHANGRI-LA February 2006 For the last couple of months, I’ve been tutoring a little Japanese girl named Marin. She lives with her parents in the Shangri-La Residences, adjacent to the ritzy Shangri-La Hotel. Marin’s father is working in China for a few years, so Marin attends 4th grade at the Canadian international …

Dalian Coast

DALIAN’S COASTAL AREAS

FISH FACTORY

FISH FILLET FACTORY FUN February 2006 One of the things I knew about China before I came here was that it had lots of factories. “Outsourcing” was often the scapegoat for unemployment in America, and China, with its vast supply of cheap labor, was inevitably mentioned as one of the culprits. I had imagined China …

THE END

THE END March 2006 It used to really bother me that I only had one life. But now I realize that in a way, living in foreign countries is pretty close to having different lives. Our life in Namibia was totally different from our previous life as students in the U.S.A. Our life here in …

Vietnam Travels

Vietnam April 18-30, 2006 If I had to sum up Vietnam in one long run-on sentence, I would say this: Vietnam is a wonderful, blue-skied, sandy country full of palm trees, brilliant green rice fields, delicious food, and friendly people who zip around on sexy motor bikes wearing flip-flops and face masks. And it’s cheap. …