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...

What I Did Thursday We finally got to the Forbidden City and it was such an adventure that you're going to have to read all about it next...

What I Did Sunday The taxi picked us up and took us to the train station without too many hiccups. Although at one point our driver said...

So this week's post is about what I learned during my weekend trip in Beijing and some of the details of my trip like where I stayed and...

What I Learned They have excessive packaging. Everything here seems to be packaged insidiously. We got some fruit leather/ fruit snack...

What I Learned in Shanghai Bring your student I.D. The people here all really value education and they think really highly of that. So,...

You can't go to Shanghai and not go to Disney. Well you totally can if that's not your cup of tea but I really enjoyed it. When we first...

I'm going to to start by going over a quick guide to Shanghai, how I got there, where I stayed, what I saw, where I ate. If you just want...

What I Learned Traffic is crazy. And in all honesty, I think that sometimes pedestrians legitimately do not have the right of way. You...

What I Learned Bring tissues and hand sanitizer. Bring it with you wherever you go. whenever you go. The toilets here are squatters and a...

So here's the second half of my first week in China. I like how I structured the last one just starting with what I learned and then...

Okay so these first two posts are going to be longer than usual because I'm talking about my first week here in China and there was a lot...