Introduction to Mandarin Chinese
***I recently found a blog post that I must have worked on while I was in China, but never finished and published! I publish it now for your reading pleasure!*** One of my favorite parts of living in this beautiful…
Category China
Summer 2022
In our last post, we gave a brief update of the last year. However, this past summer leading into the 22-23 school year deserves some special attention. [I wrote this a few months ago and never quite finished editing it…
Round… 4? WordPress
Hello, and welcome to our blog. My name is Christian, my wife is Leigha, and … Nah, most of you are already familiar with who we are and our journey to China. (And if you aren’t, you can check out…
Summer Time! (Part 1)
Long time no see! [Imagine your own unoriginal opening paragraph apologizing for how infrequently we write here.] When last we wrote, Leigha gave a bit more detail on our specific schedules and some of our ‘adventures’ over the course of…
Finding Beautiful Routine
Any of you who have ever tried to have an extended conversation over Facebook with me have probably discovered how unfortunately inconsistent I (Leigha) am with online communication. This blog is no exception, as Christian and I both struggle to…
…And Back Again
We made it! We are successfully settled into our quarantine hotel in Guangzhou, China. We’re enjoying it here! (We meant to send this earlier but were still getting set up and getting all our pictures together!) Quarantine Highlights Other people!…