I have to apologise for my lack of posts lately. I’ve been somewhat bogged down with other issues, as well as a presentation I have to write up for an up coming teacher conference. Aside from that, it’s be darn quiet for the better part of a couple of weeks, there really hasn’t been a [...]

As much of the rest of northern Asia is experiencing, it’s getting darn cold her in Beijing. With the top hitting the low teens over the past week, today the mercury only reached 8 degrees Celsius, and will fall to a miserable zero tonight. In my world, that means the heater will be on, regardless [...]

With the temperature plummeting during the nights, we can no longer leave Millie, our rabbit, in her cage in the living room. One side of her cage opens onto our balcony, which basically sucks the heat out of the apartment, and it just wouldn’t be fair to keep her in that. The last two nights [...]

I haven’t had a chance to write much in the last week or so, mainly as I’ve been fairly busy with the second week of summer camp. However, this week has come to a bit of a slow down with a couple of my summer classes being cancelled due to their not being enough students. [...]

One of the things I really love about Beijing is the street food. They come in all shapes and forms and there’s something for everyone, including sweet, sour, spicy, and savory. It really is a delight walking through some of the streets at night and looking at the massive array of foods on display. A [...]

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If you didn’t know, today was Duanwu (端午節) otherwise known as Dragon Boat Festival. For no better reason than any other for me, it meant it was a public holiday, although seeing as I always have Wednesday’s off, I got last Sunday off instead (and no classes on Saturday, but still had to go to [...]

Last night I went out with some of my co-workers for Korean barbeque. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m living in an area of Beijing with a high number of Koreans, hence the name ‘Little Korea’, so there are plenty of Korean stores and restaurants. In fact, I have Korean food almost every day for lunch [...]

One of the things I really dreaded in Korea was getting a haircut. You may recall the first time, back in 2004,  I was brave enough to venture into a hair salon with very little Korean under my belt and ended up with very little hair. While my haircuts improved drastically with every visit since [...]

It’s quite amazing that when I first got here in Beijing during April I had to walk to work with a jacket on, and still felt a little cold. Now, near the end of May, I have to walk to work in alternative clothes seeing as it’s so hot and I need to change at [...]