Those who have kept in touch with me know that teaching in China wasn’t always easy. But towards the end of my contract, having gotten used to… well, everything, I looked at my job with what was missing at first: positivity. And teaching in China became all of the sudden the most positive experience I […]
Memoirs of a teacher in China
Need-to-know before leaving
So you are thinking about moving to China. Your hopes are up, your luggage is almost ready and you know how to say hello in Chinese. Good. Now, what you need to know before getting on the plane, these things I wish someone had told me before setting foot in China. 1. Assuming you’re […]
Sliding down the Great Wall
I will never be able to describe what spending a year in China is like to someone who hasn’t been there no matter how precise, how alive the anecdotes might be. China is China and will be China, the giant powerful mystery of Asia. As the Great Wall, China stands in the world, cold, undefeatable, […]
Going back home
Lately we have found ourselves missing the feeling of having a home. We quit our jobs and left our apartment almost two years ago to backpack several countries and work in China. As some of you may know, life in China wasn’t easy ( that’s the least we can say) but in the end I […]
老外 part 2: what you can do as a foreigner
My first months in china have been difficult, there’s no other way to say it. Work, food, language and especially people were hard to handle although not impossible. Months later I’m inthe same room as I was when I published 外国人, when I thought I would never survive this place, when I thought China would […]
The blank page
Lately I’ve met new people, new foreigners. Coming to China because they have learnt Chinese in their countries, coming to China and seeing it as the land for spiritual retreat, living with the monks, learning tai qi, gong fu or qi kung. Healthy diet, tasty meals, you know the music. And then there’s China. MGTs, […]
外国人- Two foreigners in China
A daily phrase for us. ” Look, look! two foreigners!” “Look, look! say Hello!” “Hallo!” Quick quick, take a picture! Those are the nice ones. The hardest thing to live when you are a waiguoren living in China is the staring. The insisting, persistent staring that leaves you wondering… “are they going to attack me? […]
A good day in China
How does that happen? you might ask. I’ve been writing and saying so many negative things about China that I forgot that I could look on the bright side and say: I live in China! So yes, some days I just wake up with a smile on my face and I remember how unhappy I […]
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