Posts Tagged With: china
Reflections on BCIS
March is the season of Student Led Conferences at Beijing City International School. A year ago we attended our first, after we’d only been in Beijing a couple of months. We spent an hour each with both Miles and Sofi reviewing the school work they had done over the last year. Sofi was first, we … Continue reading
Best of March 2012
Here is another collection of the best of for the Month of March. Click through on any photo for more details and information. I was lucky enough to make it to the Great Wall three weekends in March, the most special part was when a late spring snow storm dumped on JianKou and I was … Continue reading
Jiankou in Snow
Those trapped in the languid places of no seasons can’t understand the way a winter will change a place; or the way spring will bring new hope; summer will bring sun and Autumn the golden end of a season. Â I was saddened when Beijing had a few warm days in February that I’d missed my … Continue reading
Best of November 2011
Another month living in China, another best of, this month being Movember it begins and ends with the mustache. Click through on any photo to comment or for more details. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
A Chinese Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving was further experience in the surreal given the differences in timezone and holiday practices. In China, as you’d expect, Thanksgiving is just any other working day. So Thanksgiving can’t be celebrated on its usual Thursday, this shifts everything your used to experiencing. The concept of syncrhony : simultaneous occurrence is a modern notion that … Continue reading