year abroad

Fourteen years have passed and the day of my brother’s death is always painful.  Not really all day of course, but moments throughout. This isn’t the first time I’ve thought of Dale while in China though.  I have not yet wrote about my trip to Jianshui (or some of my other trips SORRY and it’s […]

At the corner of the hospital is a lady with a cart and she makes round pancakes.  She uses coal for fire and oil for the baking.  She was there everyday selling these little pancakes for one RMB each. For the last several weeks she really has not been there. I asked someone and they

Did you like the super sad cliff hanger of a ending.  Yeah, that was on purpose.  Can’t always be humorous, got to mix up the human emotions from time to time, this occasion anger and melancholy and the infinite sadness (smashing pumpkins 90’s reference for you old folks reading). Next day we take the bus

I had a few days a few weeks back and Ling and I decided it would be fun to go to Jiangchang (the place I was supposed to work but it closed down before I came by 3 weeks) and then to Fuxian Lake (the lake the blog is named after) and then to Dajie

A couple weeks ago I was supposed to go to HohnHu with LeLing but we decided not to go at eight am so apparently next bus is at noon.  Well it’s 1.5hours there and last bus is at 430 to get back so we opted not to go. As luck would have it, my gigantic 

Autumn festival or moon festival.  Either name you call it the moon pies are delicious. They are filled with pork lard and different types of ingredients. You can have pork, beef, Rose, grape, blueberries, bananas, and other flavors.. these are in a pastry crust in the shape of  a full moon. It is a time

This city has two pools.:  One outside &one inside.   I’ve only utilized the facilities 3 time.  Part of it is that sometimes they are getting cleaned, other times have other things to do like eat or go places ,and of course I’m not a big swim person. So Catherine wanted to come one time and

People here drive just about anything.  Cars, big trucks, crotch rocket motorcycle,  all variety of scooter too.   Some of the scooter’s have the look of a three wheeler or a basic trike but they have a truck bed on the end.. appropriate size to vehicle. When I went to a smaller town I saw mule

look out,new fashion in China.  i can do a front shirt tuck here and guess what it is new and okay to do it..haha not to mention guys have their own version of purse.  still different than the manbag too. they tend to be vertical rectangle. also,  you know how much i love my curly

I just worked the late shift and me and a bud walked a friend home. We stopped by a bakery for some moon cakes and muffins. We parted ways at an intersection. I noticed there was  a crowd and music and someone talking on a mic and a tent was up at the china telecom