Since I’m so behind on China adventures already, I figured I’ll fast forward a bit to right now and go back to things like my Bday a little later.  Well technically this blog will be a mixed bag. When I first arrived, I was told I would get reimbursed for my travel in the next […]

Mr. Lee is the CEO of the hospital.  My guess is he is in late 40’s maybe 50’s. But a very outgoing and jovial type of guy.  He took me and the coworkers out to dinner about three times in a row. A typical dinner costs about 6 RMB. I bet he spent 300-400 each

After the one night stay at the kai di hotel, they gave me a tour of the hospital. There are two parts. The part facing the street is a one story building with a breeze way big enough for three cars..but that is where people wait for treatment.  The building behind it is about six

When we are eating the first dinner, who walks up but the CEO of hospital with a 52 year old white American. I couldn’t believe it. Some one i can speak to completely. He said his name is Kurt from Minnesota. He works four days a week here and I work five. Yup we have

We finally arrive and go straight to dinner. Pretty much since I’ve been here a week now,I can say the standard place to eat always looks a bit dirty. I mean we walk in and it’s just not clean floors or walls and things seem to just be out in the air. I found out

I started my trav But apparently United charges for second bag while others don’t, to Asia that is. When at lax the Malaysian airlines had another surprise for me. Oh no sir you must check your carry on, over fourteen pounds. There is another 110$ gone. But it wasn’t quite that simple, my computer and

It’s only appropriate to give you, the reader, the back story, as it were, on how I got this China gig. ((As a side note, I am probably going to write much like I talk.  Get side tracked at times, maybe some grammar errors, use words erroneously, potentially have something that could be taken wrong

Moving. We have all been there.  Mine feels a little more complicated, since I have to have to make the choice of bringing something or leave it in storage. not to mention I can only bring 50 pounds of stuff in the luggage, and a carry on (which I will have most of my electronics

For my first post, I decided to make it a background of the Yunnan Province. Rather than a what I am doing to prepare for the trip. I took this from Wikipedia  17,000 species of plants, 2,500 are endemic Less than 4% of the land of China Over 800 varieties can be found in Yunnan.