Took about 3 hours to get to Daijie and that’s normal.  Her household was going to have a few extra guests, present company excluded:  the sister Charlie and JohnBo (the guy who helped recruit me here, he is friends with her family, his family is in Beijing and Chicago, and Charlie was last years translator). […]

China doesn’t really celebrate  Jan 1st.  Sure some people care, I mean it is the next official 20__.  What they really celebrate is the Chinese New Year/Spring Festival. This year it is from Jan 30- Feb 6th but it technically continues  to the 15th and it is the year of the Horse.   (I was born

Last weekend I started noticing randomly that if I cleared my throat it would feel a little mucous-y.  Since I got back I’ve been making an effort to reach my 15,000 step goal measured via this sweet armband called Fitbit. I was getting close for a few days but not quite able to see the

While adjusting a patient on a Saturday afternoon, I noticed 2 big trucks that had a big 8:20 on it.  It was driving slow and then I noticed what I thought was a tiger.  Yup, 3 of them in little cages. You know the kind, where they can take two steps then have to turn

Certain cities do get all commercialized  about Christmas, but I think that is mostly the Big cities and definitely not mine.  I saw a few christmas trees and signs and santa faces but it was more of an oddity than anything. With that said, Ling’s hometown Daijie  has a festival that has been going on

This post is so long overdue.  You ever stop and say, Oh my this project is going to be long and take a while.  And so you procrastinate doing it.  I think most of us have all experienced that in school with a term paper. I had 6 weeks why did I wait 48 hours

On Dec 29th, after work, Mr Lee was taking Ling and I to dinner again.  This time Doe and Mrs Song were coming as well.  We took the suv which usually means we are going some place a little more off road. We pile in and as usual I don’t know where we are going

The other day we had a huge event for the company. 2 or 3 days prior to the patient appreciation event, the translator and all the workers met  after work for about 2 or 3 hours. They were to perform a classical hand gesture dance to go with a song and act two is to

Wedding.  So I was invited to go to a wedding the other day. When I first heard about it, it came off like it was a quick wedding for her brother. So I made a comment in passing, oh did he get her pregnant, and she said, actually yes how did you know that. We

I had a small gathering the other night and we cooked.  This time I cooked the blackened pork and they did the rest.  3 types of green beans were sautéed with garlic and of course was delicious. Xipiao (it’s a rice chip that you deep fry) was the appetizer and it’s very airy, It tastes