China
China is perhaps one of the most fascinating countries we’ve ever been to. With fantastic food, friendly people, and a contrast of chaos and calm, we absolutely loved our 13 months spent living and traveling around China.
Chinese New Year: The Year Of The Snake
Spring Festival (aka Chinese New Year) is fast approaching! This year, New Year’s Eve is on February 9th and the festival will continue for a week after that. Our school is decking the halls with snakes, the colour red, decorations and information about the festival. To the Chinese, this is their Christmas holiday. It’s the ...
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Why We Love Living In China
Deciding to put our backpacking lifestyle on hold for a year and move to China to teach English was a tough decision at first, but one that we will never regret! It was hard to say goodbye to our backpacks and hello to an apartment. However, we had been backpacking for a year and a ...
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Celebrating Christmas in Yangzhou, China
Like most of you back home in North America, we were off for the Christmas holidays…well, 2 days of it! The Chinese don’t celebrate Christmas so we were glad to actually have Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off. In all honestly, I don’t think we would have had those 2 days as holidays had they not ...
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Lost In Translation: Menus Of China
While travelling around China and now living here for the past 5 months, we’ve seen some strange things on the menu. Sometimes they make us laugh, sometimes they make us worry, but they’re always entertaining. If a Chinese restaurant owner decides to try to create an English menu, it makes for a very funny read. ...
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Living In Yangzhou, China
The City of Yangzhou is set alongside many canals and has some beautiful parks, gardens and a great Old Town. There are many nearby cities that can be easily explored on a weekend – Suzhou, Wuxi and Nanjing to name a few. The sprawling metropolis of Shanghai is only 1.5 hours by train, which makes for a ...
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Moving To Yangzhou, China
After travelling the world for 16 months, we weren’t ready to go home and settle down, but we needed a bit of a break from backpacking. Making the decision to move to Yangzhou, China and sign a 1 year contract teaching English was a no-brainer for us. After backpacking through this massive country for about ...
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