Spring Festival 2010 - Part I

One month of traveling and three thousand pictures later – still much left to explore.

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The beginning of February was the mid-year break between semesters at my school and in schools across mainland China.  Oh being a teacher is nice [...]

New Year’s Eve 2010 in Shanghai

This new year’s eve I went with a friend to a big party in Shanghai. Lots of DJs and many pretty people filled the scene, which took place in an old German Slaughterhouse in Shanghai.

Now renovated into artists lofts and space, the rooms were spacious and filled with posh and shabby party-goers alike [...]

Chinese Christmas Wonderland

This was my first Christmas away from home and outside of my home country.  Here I expected the holiday to go by without much fanfare, but to my surprise, Christmas decorations seemed to be hung up in every little store front from my town to Shanghai, and the shops were [...]

Kindergarten Halloween Special

In the run up to all hallows eve, Siobhan, Stuart and I were busy trying to come up with decorations for the students’ parties and designing our own costumes.

On the 30th we went to the kindergarten Halloween party, and I finally got to meet all the little ones that [...]

Some time with Buddha

Our October “holiday” didn’t turn out to be as eventful as I had hoped.  There was some odd problem with our bank, and lo-and-behold, nobody at the school was paid … until the day before school started back up again.  Needless to say, I was a little miffed, but …