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My Bizarre Chinese Medical Exam

Mixing Leisure with Work I touched down in Fuzhou Airport at roughly 3am and was relieved to have finally made it. It had been a very long trip from Prague, Czech Republic, to my final destination and I felt slightly disorientated. Thankfully one of the Academic Co-ordinators, Tom, had stayed up most of [...]

2018-05-24T08:53:09+00:00July 31st, 2012|Articles, Life in China|4 Comments

My first trip to a Chinese hairdresser

The Longest Journey Starts with One Step Having been in Fuzhou three weeks and becoming more settled with daily life I felt ready to branch out and see some of the sights China has to offer. So I enquired from a couple of friends where the best place [...]

2018-05-24T08:53:10+00:00June 19th, 2012|Articles, Life in China|7 Comments

Learning Chinese from Scratch

Having been born and educated in England, most schools taught us French or German, possibly Spanish as our second language. I never even considered trying to learn Chinese. China was so far away, and at the age of 11 I didn’t even dream of going and working in [...]

2018-05-24T08:53:10+00:00June 7th, 2012|Articles, Learning Chinese|0 Comments
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