year abroad

Upon leaving and settling up for all money owed and miscellaneous expense reimbursements from the hospital last year, the boss said, once everything has settled down I’ll contact you and maybe you can come work again…loose quote.  Of course I was polite and said to contact me but of course I had no real plan […]

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Justin has been quite busy these past few weeks.  As previously mentioned, I know work at Yadong Hospital. Thursday the 26th was Doctor Appreciation day in China and they set up a stage (red of course) and had some speeches and some singing.  They introduced the chiropractic department and it was the official opening of

As you may have seen from social media, I found a fencing club.  One day we marketed at a 24 court badminton gym and inside the space a fencing club sublet a 4 track size space.  While there the male translator helped me negotiate a price per class and we even got the price of

My contract ends in August but my visa to stay here ends first week of July.  There was an option to just extend the visa locally for 3 or 4 months but they couldn’t figure out that option. We were left with 2 options. Option 1 is to end the contract at the end of

Today is Memorial Day, and I’m doing a throwback listening to live throwing copper plus a mix of candlebox, oasis and even tool. I have said this before but it bears repeating, if you want to know more about the places I visit in each city then just Wikipedia it.  If you read any of

To pick up where I left off in late Jan during the spring festival.  (but first, I was listening to John Mayer while preparing for the post…gosh it made me sad and homesick…switch up to Bastille) The family I spent time with all week had invited me to stay with them if I ever make

YES YES, the famous Dali and LiJiang.  If there are two areas of Yunnan that people go visit, its Kunming the capital and these cities.  It took us 3 buses and about 7 hours to get to Dali, but actually we went around the lake to Old Dali which added an hour. On one of

Technically I have been to Beijing twice. Once for less than 24 hours due to a plane layover when coming back from America in Jan. and another time on a purposeful vacation of 3 days. When I was booking flights I noticed that I had a 15 hour overnight so instead of wasting my time

Let’s start with the fight.  Now, I forgot to write this story on the original Kunming post but whatever, you get it now. On the evening of Stone Forest, we met up to get a bite to eat and then headed to KTV…which was so fun.  All english songs, people enjoyed themselves, had a range