• Archive for May, 2009

    5 weeks left

    by  • May 29, 2009 • travel, vacation • 0 Comments

    posted by Sarah So we have recently switched to posting on our blogs via email, because the Great Firewall has inconveniently blocked blogging sites in preparation for the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. More on that later… Today, however, I'll post a little about the Duan Wu Festival – literally meaning the summer [...]

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    Getting Ready for the Next Chapter

    by  • May 3, 2009 • Canada, China • 3 Comments

    The last quarter of the schoolyear is in full swing — my teaching load is 18 hours a week, for 4 different courses — and Sarah’s busy memorizing countless Chinese characters. We’re so busy, in fact, that the fact that we are leaving China in almost exactly eight weeks hasn’t really sunk in yet.But it’s [...]

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