Monthly Archives: October 2010

Halloween in China?

Posted on October 31, 2010 by

One of the greatest difficulties of expatriate life in a place where there aren’t a lot of expatriates (one of our favorite Chengdu statistics is we live in a city in 11 million people with a population of 11,000 foreigners) … Continue reading →

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Our Friends Make Good Tourists

Posted on October 29, 2010 by

Some good friends from Hong Kong came out to visit for five days. Man, do I miss them. Lots of laughs, eating and playing spades. They entertained themselves excellently while we were at work, mainly because they were in disguise … Continue reading →

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Country Driving – A China Book Review

Posted on October 24, 2010 by

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the conundrum that is driving in China for a number of reasons: 1. A dignitary’s visit to Chengdu this Thursday and Friday for the Western Trade Expo shut down some of the major … Continue reading →

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Happy UN Day!

Posted on October 22, 2010 by

Exhaustion is the only word that can describe how I feel after our school’s first big music performance and UN Day celebration. We had to start somewhere with performing arts and I think we set the bar pretty high, the … Continue reading →

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A Jet-Setting Teacher

Posted on October 20, 2010 by

It’s been a while since we wrote and part of the reason is because I traveled to Shanghai for the Music China Expo of musical instrument vendors in China and to Hong Kong for an EARCOS music workshop at HKIS … Continue reading →

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Telltale Signs of Autumn

Posted on October 11, 2010 by

in Chengdu, Connecticut and Minnesota! Phil and I took a incredibly quick ten-day trip back to the motherland last week. We very much enjoyed the company of family and friends. We ate way to much wonderful food and we stocked … Continue reading →

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Happy 61st Birthday!

Posted on October 4, 2010 by

Keep on rocking in the free world!

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