June 2011
3 posts
Things I Never Knew Could Make Me So Happy
As we’ve been getting set up here, many common errands have proven extremely challenging. Despite Nick’s fluent Mandarin, it seems like nothing is ever easy, we’ve learned a rule of thumb that the simplest errands often take three times as long as one might expect because they involve extended negotiations, handwritten paperwork, and often result in multiple trips and some...
First Impressions
We have successfully secured and moved into an apartment in the Shapingba neighborhood of Chongqing. Unfortunately, this has consumed most of our waking hours since arriving in Chongqing, but we managed to figure it out in under a week. We’re still waiting for key details like the delivery of our larger bed, and installation of the internet, but the latter actually makes it a little easier...
About This Blog
About this blog: observations, musings, and amusements from my year abroad in China. Sometimes about technology, always about culture.
This title is deceptively simple, but it’s actually inspired by a very important movie in my childhood development that accounted for the majority of my knowledge about China up until about college. It’s apt, because as an American female here in...
