In the movie “Lost in Translation”, Bill Murray plays an American movie star who is staying in Japan while shooting a whiskey commercial. He has trouble communicating with the Japanese director, and because the whole thing is played without subtitles, the audience has trouble, too. But thanks to the power of the internet, [...]
It was easy for us to get permission to come to China. We brought our paperwork to the Chinese consulate and the next day we picked up our visas. When we went to Thailand we didn’t even need visas. Americans can travel in the Thai kingdom for 30 days without one. [...]
We live on the wrong side of the wall. We are on the barbarian side. Liaoning Province was once occupied by Jurchen tribesman, also known as Manchus. In the mid-seventeenth century, the Manchus breached the Great Wall of China (GWC) and conquered the country. The Wall had defended China for almost [...]
Homesickness is not a big problem for us because we have each other. We get each other’s jokes and we listen to each other’s complaints, and that makes it a lot easier to be so far from home. But sometimes we still miss America, and we have developed these tricks to make it [...]
Emily, Joshua and Artemis now live in Philadelphia, PA. They used to live in Qingdao, People's Republic of China.
Monthly Archives: June 2006