This Beijing Life: Month 11

This Beijing Life: Month 11

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for more info. I’ve noticed that the more I travel and the busier I become, the more impossible it becomes to keep up with my travels in real-time. Well, never fear monthly recap posts are here! What I was up to this month I’m not gonna lie, […]

Is Hong Kong Really China?

Is Hong Kong Really China?

Is Hong Kong really China? Well that, my friends, is a complicated question with a complicated answer. Before I came to China, I always thought that Hong Kong was definitely China. I knew it had a lot of British influence, and the people spoke Cantonese instead of Mandarin, but I never really viewed it as separate from the […]

T- 14 Days

With two weeks to go, I figured I’d fill you all in on my painstaking process of trying to prepare for a move to China. A few weeks ago in my post Graduation: Becoming a “Real Person”, I mentioned that I may have to go to Hong Kong to get a work visa. Well a lot […]

Spring Break: Hong Kong and Macau

Spring Break: Hong Kong and Macau

Since I need a break from studying, and I can’t figure out how to start my online TEFL class, I decided I’d cover a few important things that I missed when my computer died last year, starting with: Spring Break! While it has been a year since I visited Hong Kong, Macau and Hainan on […]