Today I saw a man carrying a ten foot ladder. Riding a bicycle. In rush hour traffic. Which means he was riding in a crowded bike lane with cars weaving this way and that, including into the bike lane. The traffic here really has to be seen (or, better, ridden in) to be believed. The [...]
Hmm. It’s starting to seem like every time I post something to this page, it’s about an embarrassing story. Oh, well, here goes.
Yesterday we went to the WalMart in Nanchang. That’s right, WalMart. We’ve been doing a lot of shopping in discount stores in China. In Beijing, there was a Carrefour (a joint French/Chinese WalMart [...]
Apparently at some point during my efforts to both pack our bags and make sure that we had plenty of fully-charged batteries for my camera and our vide camera (they take the same batteries), I left the power cord for the video camera at home. This cord is not really needed when video taping, as [...]
I’ve completed the previous post, which was “to be continued…”.
Just after leaving the Forbidden City, Stephanie and I were standing in the square in front of the South gate (the one with Mao’s picture above it) when a couple of Chinese students asked us how we were doing…
If you haven’t heard of the tea ceremony scam, you should definitely read this.