Category Archives: My Life in China Series

I will continue with my adventure after leaving the airport in Beijing shortly, but I just wanted to take a moment and give some context to the place I will call home for the remainder of this multi-part story. Baoding city in Hebei Province is no Beijing or Shanghai. I doubt many outside of ChinaContinue reading “My life in China, Part 4- A bit about Baoding”

So, the journey continues (check out Part 1 and Part 2). I am landing in Beijing, watching fireworks going off all around. After months of planning and various bumps in the road, I am finally in China! It is hard to get across the excitement at this point. I am setting off on a hugeContinue reading “My life in China, Part 3- Arrival”

So as I detailed in my last post, they canceled my flight, forcing me to reschedule the departure on my great adventure to the next day. It is leaving early, and after the day’s events, it is already well into the night, but I still have a mission. Somehow I need to let Hebei UniversityContinue reading “My life in China, Part 2- Frantic calls”

Way back in the winter of 2004 and 2005, I probably made the most significant decision of my life. I decided to move to China. I would spend the next two years living in the Middle Kingdom, teaching CEO’s, college and high school students, and even kindergartners. I got married, was absorbed into a ChineseContinue reading “My life in China, Part 1- Getting there”