Well, you may remember that I posted about a month ago about my trip to HK to apply for my work visa. It was Jan. 16 that I got my work visa and went back to GL with 30 days for the school that I work for to submit all the necessary paperwork for our […]

We took another family trip out to some areas north of us. It was going to be a 6 hour bus ride, but there are 3 days a week that have 50 minutes flights for like $20! So we booked the flight for Friday evening and planned to return on the following Wednesday flight. We […]

It’s Spring Festival time! It’s really an exciting and fun time around here. Just imagine Christmas with different decorations 🙂 Everyone goes back home to be with family. The kids get off school for a whole month. Red lanterns are hung everywhere. Red paper cuttings are hung in windows. Blessings for the new year written […]

Spring Festival is the biggest holiday of the year – it’s comparable to Christmas in that everyone goes home to be with family, share lots of food, and take a break from work and school. We had several different invitation to go back with local friends but their hometowns were just too far away. We […]

Well . . . in our 5 years here we have had frogs, tadpoles, turtles, fish, snakes, ducks, rabbits, birds and lizards. Most have been returned to the wild. The kids have always wanted a dog or cat but with our visa requiring frequent travel it didn’t seem like a good idea. Now, that we […]

We went with a friend to an amusement park not too far away – about a 2 hour bus ride. Since it’s so close to the big holiday here I wasn’t sure if it would be really crowded or uncrowded. Thankfully, it was the latter. We pretty much had the whole park to ourselves. We […]

The kids did an art camp for a week. I think Kylie is naturally gifted in this area and Colt isn’t bad either so I signed them up together. They did some great work! The last day they need a “model” to paint. Do you see the resemblance? haha.