Tag Archives: Chinese life
A Round Square?
I took this yesterday in Beihai Park. If that square is the character for “round”, I officially give up on learning Chinese.
Meg Autonomous Region
When I said we’d be eating at the beef-noodle cafe again tonight, what I actually meant was that Stick and I would be getting some brie, Ritz crackers and Snickers bars! There’s a grocery just a few blocks away that … Continue reading
Beef Noodle Shop
Last night we went to a little restaurant a few blocks from the school. From the Arabic on the sign, and the lack of pork on the menu, it’s probably a Muslim place. (This is always reassuring to me because … Continue reading
Talk Like A Pirate… Everyday
So my wonderful friend Alison pointed out that September 19th is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Of course I plan to participate, but talking like a pirate is totally redundant in Beijing. Beijingers use all the Rs that Mass … Continue reading
Don’t Drink And Hop?
Stick’s already gone to bed, but I just have to share this picture. It was on a bulletin board at school with a lot of drawings of training athletes and Olympic mascots. I’m still not sure what the drunken bunny … Continue reading
Gadget Addict
Gadgetaddict offers quite the array of tech toys, like remote-control cars or videogames. Some of them are the crazy toys like we just saw in that in-flight duty-free catalog, like the motorized inflatable bumper boat. I think it would be … Continue reading
Rainbow Bridge By Night
Christina’s awesome panoramic of the rainbow bridge. (PS — Eric, the Great Firewall seems to be preventing me from answering your comment, but Stick said the same thing when we saw it.)
