Personal Blog

News, views, and travel reviews from the most remote part of China - Xinjiang. We're just chillin' here, living our daily lives amongst the groups of Chinese, Hui, and Uyghur that surround us at every corner while coming to grips with the cultural differences that we must face with each group individually.

Commentary on life in Chifeng City and other parts of this vast Gobi Desert, politics, religion, personalities, customs, food, culture, complaints, ethnic rivalry, police, education, personal relationships, government management and mismanagement, corruption, and practically everything else by an English teacher whose students are primarily Chinese and Mongolian students.

Distorted. Inaccurate. Not right.

I am a teacher, a bicyclist, a martial artist, a cook. I am a lapsed filmmaker, an amateur photographer, and a sloppy linguist. My husband is a gifted healer and acupuncturist. Together, we are spending a year or more in Chengdu, China, as I teach applied linguistics at Sichuan University, and he furthers his studies in herbs and tui na massage. This site is not a travel guide for the curious or a how-to supplement for your Lonely Planet pocket pal.
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