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This is a collection of blog posts from my time living in Southern China, 2016-2017.
January 10, 2017
Chinese English is⦠well⦠unique. English is a terribly complicated language to learn, especially as a second language. But grammatical and etymologic...
December 25, 2016
Christmas Day dawned cloudy and cool. The air was humid and a little heavy, but overall pleasant. The sky was white, even if the ground was not. I o...
December 19, 2016
The Guangdong Museum is a modern museum. The blocky building has an artistic quality that practically screams βthis is a museum.β It stands against a...
December 18, 2016
The Guangdong Folk Art Museum in Guangzhou contains a wonderful collection of artwork and information on the various art styles that China is known fo...
December 17, 2016
We eat lunch at a family style restaurant around a large round table. The meal is warm and the hot broth restores us physically, emotionally, and ment...
December 16, 2016
βTo give you a better impression of Zhuhai and surrounding cities, the College will organize one-day trips for all staff in this academic year.β ...
November 23, 2016
The following is criminally incomplete. It's mainly a short collection of quick glimpses and descriptions of my trip to pick up Ruth at the airport an...
November 20, 2016
It's way too easy to spend money in China. Everything is cheap, but so is your paycheck. I've actually found it difficult to wrap my head around th...
November 15, 2016
The Color Run calls itself "the happiest 5k on the planet." Aside from strangers aggressively throwing colored powder in my hair, at my face, and towa...
Lots of people wanted photos with the westerners at the event. I enjoyed my short lived celebrity status for the day. My favorite shot is the one wher...
November 9, 2016
I originally posted this as a status on Facebook, but decided to include it here for posterity. This week I experienced my first US election ou...
November 4, 2016
On the 4th floor of building C is a small coffee shop called Coffee Moment. As far as I can tell it's run by students with little or no oversight by...
October 12, 2016
"Are you free on Saturday?" Jack asks in his wonderful British accent. "We're going to Macao for lunch, there's this wonderful Indian restaurant. The...
October 9, 2016
The Chinese Language is as complicated as it is beautiful. It's a fun language which easily mixes the literal with the figurative. To me the language...
October 3, 2016
The last time I was at Victoria Peak (March of 2016) it was so foggy we couldn't see 6 meters. (That's just under 20 feet, depending on the markets.)...
October 2, 2016
I spent a lot of money on food in Hong Kong. Thai We reached Hong Kong well after lunch and immediately started looking for food options. We so...
October 1, 2016
October 1 is China's National Holiday. It's similar to the Fourth of July in America. I had five days off from work so a couple other interns and I de...
September 12, 2016
Here's a look at a typical day during my first two weeks on campus. My day starts around 6:45am. It's a little earlier than normal, but I've been na...
September 9, 2016
Tangjia is a community in Zhuhai about three-quarters of a mile from where I live. I'm there on most days, eating supper, shopping, or catching the bu...
September 4, 2016
One of my biggest struggles in adapting to life in China has been with technology. Specifically with internet connectivity, or lack thereof. What's...
![ππ° Victoria Peak [UNCENSORED]](/images/1/5/3/2/2/15322657b8a9fc55a5039c7d337ce281038c02d2-00hongkong.jpg)
