Category: Life in Xining
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As you can see from this picture, Anna was ready to chow on some turkey. She was not disappointed. We had a great Thanksgiving feast and had a lot to be grateful for. We had our celebration at our teammates’ home on the west side of the city. After all the feasting, we played some…
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turkey standoff
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Where’s Christa? Oh yeah, taking the pic
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Sarah eyeing the cornbread…
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I’m telling a gripping story about mashed potatoes…
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ah, pumpkin pie is bliss!
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It’s Thanksgiving for us already…but I won’t go into the turkey details until we’ve actually had some. We’re gathering with some other Americans from our team to celebrate this afternoon. I am told there will even be pumpkin pie! There’s many things to be thankful for this year and the things that quickly come to…
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Last weekend we celebrated our first official weekend where absolutely NO workers came into our home! We relaxed, we drank good coffee, we pretended like it was a typical American weekend for us (i.e. for us a typical weekend means lazy), and it DID WONDERS! Seriously, I felt really refreshed; almost human again. And (drum…
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You thought I was joking about starting my own Xining pizza chain aptly called Baba Zhang’s (Chinese equivalent to Papa Johns). Well, if you had your doubts, here’s some instructional photos–a graphic procedure if you will–which I am working on to include in my employee handbook. These are the first prototype Baba Zhang minis that…
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(a.k.a. binzi, pronounced bean-za) These go for about 25 cents for 6…
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