Category: Blog
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Seeing Beijing: Burger Fest 2020
We missed the Great Leap Back ally Chili cookoff but we didn’t miss theBeijinger’s Burgerfest. It is one of those events you hear about and always think “Yea, I’d like to go some time” but then never do. This year, in league with my idea of seeing something around Beijing or China every week, I…
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September already and a change up of scheduling
It’s hard to believe that it’s already September but it does seem like things are slowly getting back to normal. We still have quite a few health and hygiene measures in place here in Beijing but some have been relaxed, notably wearing a mask. Now that nine months of 2020 has passed I can’t help…
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Stepping up to HSK 5
As we enter into the second half of 2020 and a restart of work, I thought it would be a good time to step things up a little. And it’s with that that I finally ordered the HSK 5 books. The new target level is 2500 words TOTAL, which means I now have to learn…
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Green Means Go: Working and Travelling after COVID
We’re finally back on the road for work, but the experience is a touch more complicated in that we now have to download, and register, a slew of new APPs, most of which are primarily in Chinese. What are these APPs? Other than tracking out whereabouts and travel history, each APP needs to give us…
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Tims咖啡 – A Review
Tim Hortons finally made it to China a couple of years after they first announced the joint venture with Tencent Holdings, the same company that owns the popular WeChat communication APP here in China. I should clarify: Tim Hortons, known as Tims咖啡 here in China, has been in the country for about a year since…