Rachelle's Asian Adventures!

Well, I've been gone from Kunming for more than a month now, and I'm missing the beautiful

Using up my overtime days....and my money. Well, it's been a while since I left China , but

After my last days of work in Kunming, I had the chance to go to the zoo with some of the group

Since I'm taking a Chinese test for the US government on Thursday, I thought I would share some

Well, even the proxy server has been verrrrrrrry slow lately. Hence my lack of updates. Time has

Well, dear old China has been on an internet censorship kick again recently (and darn it, they're

Yes, it's true, KFC (肯德基 ken de ji) in China now has something that is suspiciously similar to a

I recently created a Facebook page for Threads of Yunnan, the fair trade company that I am working

So, I'm always trying to think of things in China that I take for granted, but you, faithful

When eating dinner at a Muslim restaurant the other day, there was a sign on the wall. I got really

Yes, this is why I have studied Chinese for such a long time....to be able to legally download music

Yummy yummy Chinese room service. Don't you want a spiced chicken claw or some meat conjee with

A relatively long tale of the rest of my Spring Festival Shenanigans... So when we last left my tale

Oh how we foreigners love our Chinglish humor. We find ourselves so punny! If you don't get the

On Saturday night a couple of my friends and I went out to dinner. One of my Chinese friends brought

Sorry this post is so delayed....I was having issues uploading the pictures. Sometimes I get to a

Three recent episodes: One of my old students, Haibo (English name: Bobo--cracks me up!), works at

It's a shameless plug, I know... International SOS Emergency Health Insurance - $685 A month of

On November 30, I threw a huge and, I think, rather successful Christmas party. Yes, November is a

Actually, I guess it should go the other way. It was the worst of times first. For the last couple of

Some timely vocabulary: President (of a Republic): 总统 (zongtong) Vice President: 副总统 (fu zongtong)

我知道熊猫的愿望。 他有两个愿望。 一个是去掉黑眼圈。 另一个是拍一张彩色照片!* (Wo zhidao xiongmao de yuanwang. Ta you liang ge yuanwang.

or why is China such a loud place? Today is September 18, as you may know if you own a calendar. What

For all of you who asked, I did not have the chance to go to any of the Olympic events. Tickets were

It is again the Mid-Autumn Festival in China. Click here for the post I wrote about the holiday last

Ok, I'm not going to give you a word of the day every day (or even near every day), but since I

Hot pot has recently enjoyed a renaissance in my life. For a while, I swore that I didn't like

The Chinese are still a little superstitious about numbers. Basically, 8 is good and 4 is bad.

Yes, outfit repeating. In many places in China, it is common to wear the exact same outfit two (maybe

So this morning two buses were apparently bombed in Kunming...at the same time that I was on a bus in