This year the Dragon Boat Festival (aka Duanwu Jie) fell on June 21. If you would like to know more about the holiday in general then please check out my previous blog. If you have any questions then please let me know and Ill do my best to answer any questions. Micah and I went out for lunch that day and while we were walking
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Dragon Boat Festival, An Overview
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. Many schools and companies were off yesterday and will be off on Monday for the observance of the holiday. The holiday traffic has been pretty bad. My normal commute takes about 25 minutes but I finally got to my destination about 45-50 minutes later. A lot of Chinese travel back to their parent’s homes or back to home villages.
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No qualms, no boundaries
Culture shock is one thing but the slow adjustment to the idiosyncrasies of another culture over months and even years is another. One of the oddest parts of slowly adjusting was having stereotypes affirmed or denied; even with knowing a belief is a stereotype it’s still a little odd to see it contraindicated. For instance, in some stereotypes of Chinese people you often see that
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Arriving in China Part 2, International Flight and Hong Kong
Note: This is the second installment in the Arriving in China series. If you would like to read that section first, click here. Chicago’s trippy lights and itinerary changes Once we arrived in the Chicago airport we immediately scoped out the place and checked the flight board to make sure nothing had changed (as per the advice of the nice woman the previous day).
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Dutch Flower Town
I have been wanting to plant and grow some culinary herbs since I tend to use a lot in my cooking. In America you can easily get herbs at reasonable prices fairly easily, but it’s not easy here for several reasons. The most obvious reason would be the language barrier, but the herbs I use are Western, which are not typical in Chinese cooking. With
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Living with Epilepsy in China
Imagine that you are walking down the street when your thoughts suddenly become sluggish and thick like feet walking in a muddy creek bed. Then you realize you can’t feel much of your body and the edges of your vision are beginning to slide into a gray fog ever so slowly. You take a breath to calm yourself, but something else, something other than
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Arriving in China, My first international, Part 1
Micah’s second, my first One of the first questions I am often asked after telling people in America or meeting other foreigners here is “Where else have you traveled?” The answer to this is sadly lacking. Let me tell you why. Before moving to China I had flown once to Denver, Colorado to present (as a group) some research I was fortunate enough to work
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Hello, Welcome to China
Ni hao, I wanted to open this blog with a little bit about who we are, where we are, what we’re doing and how we’ve gotten to this point. My name is Genta Hurst. I am a scientist (out of work right now), book lover, aspiring author and aspiring artist. Micah and I got married back in December of 2010. Even before dating, I knew
