Ex-Expat Thoughts

Friday, 5 June 2009, 16:17 | Category : Raleigh
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I was listening to Obama’s Cairo speech on NPR the other day when the radio cut out and it went to static. My first thought was not that I was driving through a radio dead zone, or that NPR might be having difficulties, but that Obama must have mentioned Tiananmen and gotten censored.
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There Goes The Neighborhood

Thursday, 5 June 2008, 10:24 | Category : Chinese life
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As we carried our bags and boxes down the winding carless alleys to our new hutong home, we passed our new neighbors, grandparents and toddlers having dinner in the doorways and staring curiously at the heavily-laden foreign couple. Stick turned to me and asked “Do you think they’re saying ‘There goes the neighborhood’?”