In one of my recent pieces of Chinese homework I wrote the following sentence: 你是否幸福取决在于你对问题所做出的反应，而不在于问题本身。It translates to: ‘your happiness depends on how you react to a problem, not on the problem itself’. The homework involved writing a list of sentences, each containing one of the new grammar structures for that week. This was just one…
Category: Reflections
我要这个 – A Foreigner’s Experience of Food in China
After my diet for my first few days in China consisted mostly of 奶茶 (milk tea) and whatever vegetarian meal I managed to order (usually not inspiring enough to warrant eating a great deal of), I was hopeful that my time in China would result in losing a bit of weight. Spoiler, this definitely did…
中国加油 – Reflections on how Covid-19 cut short my year abroad in China
A huge amount has changed since my last post back in September. I have returned back to the UK, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic after the best six months in Asia, living in Shanghai for 4 and a half months before 6 weeks of travelling in South East Asia. A flight back to…
China Survive Life Abroad 