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By Ruth Today and tomorrow the school is holding their annual sports meet. My students were asking what sports meets are like in America, b...

By Kevin I apologize in advance for the shameless plug, but I just published a book titled "Chinese + English = Chinglish." You sh...

by Ruth Yesterday our team was looking over a passage in the Psalms that says, “He makes my feet like the feet of a deer, so I c...

by Ruth Thanks to the economic slump, many of my friends (the non-China variety, anyway) seem to be buying houses this year. I would be lyi...

by Ruth Last weekend we decided it was time for a cheese run. On our first semester trip to Metro (the supermarket in Xian which has im...

Still grading exams. I didn't expect this, but they managed to get worse. On one of the first quizzes I gave them, it seemed that the av...

By Kevin Here are a few examples of actual test answers I got today and yesterday (I just listed a few of the more absurd ones - these were ...

By Kevin Although I wore short sleeves for much of the last week, my students were continually shocked. In fact, most Chinese people are sho...

By Ruth So yesterday we went on a bike ride with students and...nothing broke! Amazing. Not nearly as exciting to write about, I must say, ...

By Kevin As we pulled into the bicycle repair shop at the end of the bike storage yard on campus, I wondered how much it would cost to get m...