Archive for November, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

26, Nov 2009

I slept in, signed online and watched President Obama pardon a turkey. It may not be waking up to the smell of turkey roasting in the oven or turning on football, but it’ll do.
If you’re wondering what Thanksgiving will look like for me: Today I’ll enjoy a quiet day off with my team, watching movies [...]

Why I love team leading

17, Nov 2009

A few weeks back I attended a team leader summit in Beijing, and maybe the most worthwhile thing from the whole weekend sprung from a simple question:
What first drew you to team leading?
Here’s a compilation of the answers my colleagues and I gave, and it pretty much sums up why I said to a friend [...]

Snowy Harbin

16, Nov 2009

I haven’t written much about the city I’m living in. I hope this is the beginning of that changing.
It’s been snowing in Harbin since Friday afternoon and I’ve been thinking about how beautiful the city looks covered in snow. It might be the giddiness of the first snowfall speaking, but it honestly feels like Harbin [...]

Jiaozi in hand

16, Nov 2009

Jiaozi = a Chinese dumpling. Making them with students = something I will never forget or take for granted.

11.11

11, Nov 2009

Probably the most common question I get from people I meet is “why did you come to China?” Right behind that is “do you have a Chinese girlfriend?” or, more directly, “do you want a Chinese girlfriend?” Or more awkwardly, “do you like Chinese girls?” Surprisingly, those questions are a lot more related than you [...]

The weather is getting colder…

10, Nov 2009

Thus all of China is on a mission to make sure their friends dress warmly enough. In Chinese the phrase you hear most in these days is 多穿衣服 “duo chuan yi fu,” which translates literally to “wear more clothes.” So, because we all love some good Chinglish, here’s a sampling of the heartfelt text messages [...]


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