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Nablopomo Questions -Day 1- China Travel

AmericanFamily — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:29:59 +0000

I am just going to dive in and start answering the questions you all sent me for Nablopomo. I will try to post for 30 days straight, but possibly that means I can be done before Thanksgiving.

Here we go (in no particular order):

Anne asks:

We are planning a return trip to China this [...]

Earthquake

AmericanFamily — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:01:04 +0000

After the earthquake in New Zealand, I was a little nervous about being in Taiwan. It wasn’t that long ago that the area Mr. A’s family was from was totally devastated by a massive earthquake too. It just seemed like the NZ quake was a warning shot to me.

Mr. A’s uncle (Jiujiu) asked me [...]

Packing List / China travel advice

AmericanFamily — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:19:41 +0000

A friend who is getting ready to go to China emailed me about things we packed, so I thought I would summarize my thoughts here too.

Overall, I think we did a good job packing. We were in the unfortunate position of needing to pack for both very cold weather and warm weather, so that [...]

Re-entry

AmericanFamily — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:53:38 +0000

Well, that was a lovely week lost in the bowels of jetlag, illness and trashy American TV.

For the record, I think the jetlag was worse for the first four days. If L hadn’t been a total manic who refused to sleep past 4:30am for many, many days, I think I would have recovered much [...]

culture shocking

AmericanFamily — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:02:48 +0000

You know what is a great way to jump start some serious reverse culture shock?

Going to an American grocery store.

Why is it as big as a football field? Why is there an entire row of soda? Why is there another whole row of WATER? It is WATER for crying out loud.

I [...]