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4 months later, the story of Little Guy

I think Little Guy is starting to have real progress. He has been in the family for four months. It has not been easy. At all. But love conquers all. The most amazing thing happened at Kindergarten yesterday. We dropped off the kids and unbundled them. The lead teacher comes running out in...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on November 25, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

Yarn Market

We went to the yarn market today. I had been to a good one in Shenyang and had been trying to go to one in Harbin forever. Finally I had good directions!!! The material market in Harbin was sooo awesome, I thought up here in freezing Harbin, the yarn market would be the best. I was a bit...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on November 21, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

First Snow of the winter

Friday it snowed for the first time this winter. I'm sure the stuff will be here until we go home New Years Eve, but the 1st snow is always the funnest. It was late for the 1st snow this year, other years we had snow in early October. The snow is bittersweet because I rather have pretty snow if...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on November 15, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

Things you buy in China that you'd never buy in the States

We went downtown to try to get Little Guy's picture drawn. The artists were gone, so we snapped a couple of pictures of St. Sophias instead. We thought of walking to the flood monument because sometimes artists are there, but Little Guy is not much of a hiker. Little Guy certainly is spiritual,...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on November 9, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

Haircut

Little Guy needed another haircut. His first haircut happened when I was teaching in Beijing. He didn't enjoy it. There was much discussion about his sideburns. The hairdresser wanted to leave them and refused to cut them off. Sideburns are thought to be good here. Apparently it means you have...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on November 6, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

Little Guy's 1st Birthday with US

Wooohooo! More cake. Actually we didn't pick his cake out the ayi did. We have been sick and were at the hospital yesterday and the day before. I went thru with monks and my bill was quite low. Chris was charged 4 times as much as me. Usually our prior experience with illness in China is that...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on October 29, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

Fall inHarbin

This fall has been the nicest and longest we have had in China. We have taken some nice walks around campus. We enjoy the Chickens. But don't like playing Chicken! We like people watching. They seem to watch us too. The good thing about China is that is never the same place twice. Even...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on October 25, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

The water cycle

A few days ago they turned on the heat full time. Yeah, we like to be warm. In Shenyang, they waited until 3 snows before the cranked the furnace and then it was never very warm even. One of the reasons we moved to Harbin was that even though it is super cold, they believe in cranking the heat...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on October 20, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

The kitchen sink

We have a kitchen sink the size of a bathroom sink in America. We have no automatic dishwasher. We do have 3 potential dishwasher children. Teenager has no interest in developing potential in this area. Little Guy and Princess actually fight to see who CAN wash the dishes. Due to the shallow...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on October 12, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

Ethnic Museum

Sunday we decided to visit the Temple/Museum on our campus. It has recently been restored and is free. I'm not sure if it is a Province or City Museum. The restoration was really grand. I had been to the non-restored part over a year ago. They didn't let you take pictures inside the buildings...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on October 11, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher

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