I ate donkey today

It tasted like beef.  I kinda wished that they wouldn’t have told me, because I couldn’t tell the difference.  But,…

Homesick at IKEA

I haven’t really felt homesick at all since moving to Beijing 6 weeks ago.  I’m really enjoying all of our…

Weird work experience

I was invited by a vendor at Microsoft to come sit in during an "English corner"… Anyway, it ended up that…

Hutong Bike Tour

A hutong is an old school neighborhood in China.  It’s typically a narrow alleyway of which there are probably hundreds…

Caleb’s photo adventure

Caleb and I went on a photography walk after church around our building after church.  These were the pictures that…

eating turtles

It’s hard to miss the big turtles swimming around in the tanks at the grocery store and the markets… At…

Bargaining

The Chinese are masters of negotiating.  It’s because they have to do it everyday.  Americans in general probably do it…

Kung Fu

Kung Fu is the primary martial art of China, so we thought it appropriate that we enroll Caleb in a…

Dinner and a show

  Today was our first date night.  Our Ayi, Luo, came over at 5pm.  I was a bit lame and…