year abroad

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

It’s about Christmas time and I need more gifts.  I went online and bought some American stuff and had it shipped to the parentals domicile. But I figured I should find some kind of Chinese gifts too. Problem is, stuff here is not only about as expensive but can be more.  And to boot the

I just wanted to post a few videos that i took.  Text will come later on.  2 videos are sideways, sorry… But They Are all Short in Length I was interviewed about the festival, a patient said they saw me on TV, but we could not find that clip.  

Turf wars are in every country apparently.  Mr Doe and Ling were chatting the other day. Afterwards I was like HEY what was all that about.  She hesitated because she didn’t want to hurt my feelings.   I think I mentioned this before, that sometimes she didn’t tell me about some of the drama or

Had a two day regular weekend, but Ling was like hey you want to go to Jianshui?  Sure why not. Her sister works in a small town and lives here on the weekend, but my weekend is Wed and Thur.  Needless to say we didn’t see her sister.  The first leg is close to 3