City girl moves to the Chinese countryside.
Oh, the things she will learn.

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The Dreaded Saturday Morning Ritual

The Dreaded Saturday Morning Ritual

It's Saturday morning in Rotterdam and I find myself at a place I once dreaded as a child: Chinese school.

Buried in Chinese characters…

I’m sorry for my absence. I made it a priority to blog when I first arrived in Hong Kong. But things started to get busy, as I signed up for two volunteer projects – one teaching English phonics to 10-year-old kids and the other visiting a shelter for battered foreign domestic helpers – and I’ve...