People and their dogs here. . .

Everyone seems to have a poodle.  It is definitely the most popular choice.  It’s also popular for dogs to be clothed and primped to the max!  This dog we snapped a picture of was the most outlandish we had seen until yesterday when I saw a poodle (of course) with LACE UP SHOES ON! Oh, […]

Yíjiā

I’m nearly convinced that we should give up on trying to go to Yíjiā (IKEA – Swedish Furniture Store) here in our city.  The first time we went as a family it took 2 hours to get there when it should’ve taken 30 mninutes, and it was packed full of people because it was a Saturday […]

Happy New Year

We were off from language studies, and Colt was off from his school on New Years Day. Our tutor said only govt. workers would be off. So we decided to take a trip out into the city and let the kids play. I think all of East Asia was off work though because it was […]

Fall in Asia

When we arrived in October, everything was green.  It was different from the wild, wonderful colors of the West Virginia hills where I grew up with all of their vibrant reds, oranges, yellows. . . As we entered December in Asia, I had decided the leaves just didn’t change here.  Different tree species or whatever, […]

Crazy Day

We are in a “landing city” for the maina purpose of learning language.  This city has tons of resources and personnel to help us learn the language well and much more quickly, but it ALSO has about 14 million people.  Whew.   We have never lived in a place anywhere like CD.  Pretty much everything […]