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Five Life Lessons I Learned Teaching in China

An acting teacher once told me that people stop changing at twenty-five, that after that time your character is pretty much set in stone. Read more Five Life Lessons I Learned Teaching in China

How to Cross The Street In China

How did the chicken cross the road? Not in China.Read more How to Cross The Street In China

The Speakeasy in a Speakeasy: Our Hong Kong Highlight

There are at least a dozen of these ‘hidden’ bars in the city that aren’t exactly ‘secret’, but do require a little bit of reconnaissance to find and enter.Read more The Speakeasy in a Speakeasy: Our Hong Kong Highlight

How To Make Sure Your Forbidden City Trip Doesn’t Suck

But if we had done things a little different, we think we might have enjoyed our visit a little bit more. So here are our top tips to make sure your visit to the Forbidden City doesn’t suck.Read more How To Make Sure Your Forbidden City Trip Doesn’t Suck

Finding a Sense of Community in Ganjingzi, Dalian

We all have favourite places. Favourite stores, favourite restaurants, favourite cafés, favourite parks… We love these places because of the good times we’ve had, making us feel safe because we know exactly what to expect. Read more Finding a Sense of Community in Ganjingzi, Dalian

View From a Chinese Gym

December 8, 2019December 8, 2019View From This Spot

One of the unexpected upsides of living in China has been our ability to consistently live a healthier lifestyle. Between walking to work everyday, the active nature of our jobs, and the wide availability of cheap and delicious fruit and veg, we’ve become much more fit and healthy than we were when we left. Plus, we’ve added about four or five weekly trips to the gym. But of course, Chinese gyms are not exactly like what we’re used to back home…

WTF is WTF All About?

November 29, 2019November 29, 2019View From This Spot

WTF being the name of a Hong Kong bar of course. It stands for Worth The Fuss, and we can confirm: it is.

Letters to the Universe #002: Beijing Shopping Street

November 24, 2019November 25, 2019Rose

Dear Universe,

We get it. You work in mysterious ways.

Five Life Lessons I Learned Teaching in China

November 17, 2019November 27, 2019Rose

An acting teacher once told me that people stop changing at twenty-five, that after that time your character is pretty much set in stone. When I moved to China to teach at the ripe old age of 27, I realized just how wrong he was. These are five life lessons that I learned in my time living abroad that I will take with me for the rest of my life:

Celebrating My Birthday in the Hong Kong Airport

November 12, 2019November 13, 2019Adam

Travel days can often be long and boring. That’s why having to return to Dalian after an amazing week in Hong Kong ON MY BIRTHDAY wasn’t an ideal situation. But that’s just how the cards fell.

A Middle School Theatre Audition in China

November 4, 2019November 18, 2019View From This Spot

We finally got to do what we were brought to China to do: TEACH DRAMA! We were commissioned by a primary school in Dalian to produce two shows with a handful of its brightest and most dramatic students and to chose these students, we put them through an audition. China style.

Top Things To Do in Dandong, China

October 30, 2019October 31, 2019View From This Spot

With an unexpected weekend free, we hopped on a bullet train to Dandong, one hour North of Dalian, to explore this river-facing town bordering North Korea.