The other day was mooncake festival day, the most important day of the autumn festival that for some reason doesn’t start until next week. So everyone buys tons of these little stuffed pastries and they give them away to friends, business partners and family. Disclosure: I have never actually eaten a mooncake (update: I tried […]

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I knew when I first rented here that problems would arise. I knew this because I had read about so many other people have problems with their apartments here. It was statistically impossible for nothing to go wrong. Having nothing go wrong in this country would be like spontaneously turning into an apple pie and […]

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Just this past week I made another random journey with a friend to the only beach in the Qingdao area that I haven’t yet been to. This beach was at the entrance to Laoshan Mountain. My friend called me up out of nowhere and figured that despite the encroaching smog, it would be a […]

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This is probably going to come as a surprise to most people, as I know everyone back home assumes I’m all about a certain type of girl. The truth is, my current interest is as white as a trillium. She’s a true beauty though, I’d say one in a million. Over here, maybe even one […]

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