Artemis’s passport arrived in time. She and I went to the Shangrila Hotel Friday morning. A foreign service officer was there in the lobby processing papers for other Americans in Qingdao. Or rather, she was explaining to most of the them why she couldn’t process their papers.

“You should have made [...]

We are back in China after our holiday trip in America. I was planning on writing a post about reverse culture shock, but I had to scrap that idea because I didn’t feel any reverse culture shock. Being in the states was like getting back on a bicycle. I felt like no [...]