Yesterday my students skipped off to their language classes and I found this… Read the prompt first. Then read the response out loud. Feel free to giggle. Inventive spelling is simply the best!
Category Archives: Life in Shanghai
Valentine’s Day this year was perfect. Nothing too fancy, over the top, or unnecessary. We spent our evening snuggled up on the couch, surrounded by flickering candles, sipping champagne and watching The Princess Bride. I whipped up one of my best dinners to date, and I’ll admit we were tempted to lick our plates. Gifts,...
Making friends while living overseas- where do I even begin? Friendships are perhaps the most complicated, important, frustrating, and wonderful aspects of living overseas. When you move to a foreign country, you bid adieu to most of your familiar comforts, most notably, your loved ones. Yikes!!! That is HUGE! The critical importance of the human...
As I was washing some dishes the other morning, I glanced out my window at the apartment building across from mine. There on the patio, enjoying a spot of golden sunshine, sat a little brown poodle. He was wearing a very stylish light blue hoodie sweatshirt. As he turned and walked back into the apartment...
We started the year of the dragon with a leisurely walk through our neighborhood, with cameras in tow. The sun was shining, and despite the chilly nip in the air, it was a very pleasant stroll. There are times when the sun streams through the streets of Kangqiao in such a way that everything looks...
