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2024
Six months in China….where has the time gone? I’ve been remiss on my chronicling my adventures…at least on here. With the change of seasons and adjusting to new routines, I got out of the habit writing in the AM. I started taking yoga and Pilates two days a week in the morning, and with working…
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Lost in Translation
There are definitely days I feel like Bill Murray being paid to sell a fancy whisky, just nodding and smiling at most of what’s being said. My Mandarin is enough to get by but is seriously lacking when it comes to having a full conversation. I can order food, give directions to the cab driver,…
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Chinese Hospitality
My first dinner with locals all I remember (besides the delicious food) is people putting food in my bowl for me. They wanted to make sure I got the best of what there was to try, and when I had finished they made sure to replace what I had eaten. Going out to eat with…
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This is China
There are some days everything goes wrong; your VPN isn’t working, cultural adjustments and miscommunications at work, you order some food and they give you something completely different from what you said, someone literally stops and stares at you for being foreign. The life can be grating when you feel like you are living outside…
The Well-Wandered Yogi 