What I Learned Huangshan is as cold as... I don't know but it's freaking cold. Form the moment we stepped off the train to the moment we...

What I Learned Mosh hugs are my favorite. I don't know if kindergartners in America do them, but periodically my kids will just...kind...

What I Learned You can't trust you kids with chalk... or, you know, you can and you'll get this. The Buddhist temples may not be what you...

What I Learned Chinese names can have a lot of meaning. So if the Chinese people learn English, they get and English name that is easier...

What I Learned Seeing movies in China isn’t that different either. We went to see Justice League on half-price Tuesday. It was awesome,...

What I Learned Wuxi is pronounced Wu-she. In the simplified Chinese tha uses the Latin alphabet instead of Chinese characters the letter...

What I Learned The driving is crazy but the people are courteous. So watching people drive here is nuts. They straddle lanes, honk...

So I had four days off from teaching and some friends and I went south to the Guangxi Province. We spent our first full day in Guilin...

So my next four-day vacation was to Guilin and Yangshou. We did both places on the same trip so this week I'll tell you about the city of...

What I Learned Kids are accident prone no matter where you are. I nearly broke two of my kids while we were out on a field trip with...

What I Learned The garbage trucks are cute. You know how we have these huge monster trucks that eat our garbage and trundle along. The...

Saturday So we took the Jiankou Great Wall Camping Trip through China Hiking (www.chinahiking.cn). It was two days during the end of...

What I Learned Your food is going to touch. I've known this for a while but I didn't think of it in this way until recently. I ordered my...

You might remember that I was in Beijing not too long ago and during that week in China's capital, I visited the Forbidden City (aka the...

What I Learned The little things are hooks. There are these little gray out-croppings on our seats on the train. I finally learned their...