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 [...]
It’s springtime in Jinzhou. The weather is beautiful and final exams are just around the corner. It is almost impossible to convince my students to focus on their (ungraded) oral English classes.
This week, I asked my students to tell me what people, living or dead, they would invite to a dream dinner party. [...]
Josh and I are both feeling 100% better. We did not need to take antibiotics for our food poisoning. The traditional Chinese medicine worked well enough. After 4000 years of trial and error, Chinese herbalists have learned a thing or two. Still, we are hoping to receive a care package with [...]
In my last post, I mentioned that Josh and I dip our raw fruits and vegetables in a bleach solution to clean them. We also boil our water and milk. We are very careful with all of our food, and so far we haven’t gotten sick from anything that we have made ourselves.
Unfortunately, [...]
Emily, Joshua and Artemis now live in Philadelphia, PA. They used to live in Qingdao, People's Republic of China.
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