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Father's Day

The guide books for culture shock all say to observe your holidays from your country. Somehow this is suppose to allow you to feel better and integrate the 2 cultures. I dunno. This is our 3rd Father's day in China. By the time we go home, next January we will have had 3 of every thing in...

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carseat tourist on June 21, 2009 from Harbin, China

from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

Test

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reyfam1994 on June 21, 2009 from Beijing, China

from the travel blog: To China for Ruby

Summer teaching plan

We are planning to make the big yuan this summer. Last summer, we taught in Dalian for Aston English School. I loved Dalian and the people, but hated the whole for profit language school thing. The boss was actually the best boss I have had in China, if not the world. He was just awesome and...

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carseat tourist on June 19, 2009 from Dalian, China

from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

care package/ fundraiser

We have sent little guy a care package. When we volunteered in Shenyang at the orphanage we saw that the kids were able to see photo albums of their new families and the staff and the kids would be so proud to show the pictures. The kids would say Mama and Baba(Daddy) and point to the pictures....

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carseat tourist on June 18, 2009 from Harbin, China

from the travel blog: carseat tourist's Travel Blog

The real LOA

It's our 8th anniversary and we turned on the computer to find out we got LOA!!!! So How did we celebrate? Well with an adventure of course! We went to Hamamas Kofi Haus. It is a cool place with really good food. The owners are from Papu New Guinea. The food is as close as it gets in Harbin...

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carseat tourist on June 16, 2009 from Harbin, China

from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

Rainbow in Harbin

Well, I was having a hopelessly homesick day today. The paperwork that we thought was coming, is not the paperwork we need to progress the adoption, just more paperwork really. Augh....Then I proofread this Chinese Engineering textbook last week to make a little extra RMB. That was another...

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carseat tourist on June 15, 2009 from Harbin, China

from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

300 wishes

American Girl makes a cute little card game, 300 wishes. It is designed for girls maybe 6-10.I brought it from the States to play with my students. I teach university students and staff. They loved the game! I think people don't get enough opportunities to be nice in life, so it was a completely...

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carseat tourist on June 13, 2009 from Harbin, China

from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

国安冠军

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tianjinsb on June 13, 2009 from Beijing, China

from the travel blog: 国安冠军

Waiting for little Guy

TGIF! I opened my email today and found out that the American adoption agency needed my phone number to send me some "important documents"...it must be the LOA! Letter of Acceptance Woohoo!!!!!!! That means that China is goingto let us adopt little guy! So I decided to start a blog for...

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carseat tourist on June 12, 2009 from Harbin, China

from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher