Tag: Thoughts
Shots Around Shanghai: My Commute
Those of you who are aspiring English teachers, be warned. Shanghai is SO COLD in the winter. It’s brutal. Beautiful in the sunshine, though. Coldest day in 30+ years, right here.
Nanjing: The Weekend Away
A great weekend away! More writing about it soon, but not just now.
Shanghai is impermanent
The train is pulling slowly out of the station and moving into the great interior of the vast middle kingdom, which is zhongguo. It moves slowly, a snake in the firelight of the millions of LEDs shining across the square. This is our entry to Shanghai. NOt on the train. Above it. The eleventh floor…
2015 is now another country: people do New Years differently In Shanghai
When 2014 became 2015, we were in London. When 2013 became 2014, we were in London at Liverpool Street. When 2012 became 2013, we were in Seoul. And in 2011, I was in Colorado. Shanghai’s New Years was somehow just as subdued as in my hometown of a puny 20,000 people. Somehow, 25 million in…
