Tag: travel
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A Brief Guide to Travelling in China
I hope to give a very brief introduction to moving your way around China both for travel and work purposes. Although this guide isn’t comprehensive, it should give you the basics and a good idea of what to expect when you land in China. General **For more information on general world travel, have a look…
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Is Beijing Home? Probably Not.
As I prepare to return to Canada for a bit this summer some of you might be wondering if I’ve now made Beijing my home. The truth is that Beijing is home for now, but no, beyond work, I don’t think this city is a place I’d call home just yet. Most folks I’ve met or…
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Hot and Green
So Beijing has one of those funny temperatures that goes from “Wow, it’s kinda cold” to “Wow, it’s hot outside.” Well, it recently reached the latter part of that temperature scale with the mercury easily climbing to 20C or higher. Now, since most of you reading this here blog have probably never lived or perhaps even visited China…
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How This Semester is Shaping Up
Well I’d better post this now while I have the chance. This semester has been extremely busy and flying by at an extraordinary pace. Each semester requires us communication teachers to put together listening exams for our courses. However, in order to make it fair, we need to create NEW exams each time. That sounds like a no-brainer but…
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Winter Vacation Has Begun
Despite having more “free time” since exams finished two weeks ago, I’ve actually been quite busy. Last week I ventured off to the North of China to Haerbin to see the snow and ice festival and a couple other cities for about a week all in. And wow, was it cold. And I say that as a…