To continue the world-wide theme of this retirement blog, I’m delighted to include another blog from our friends in Shanghai. Ireland one week, China the next, what value for money especially as it’s free. You will remember from previous blogs of theirs that this couple chose not to go gently into that dark night of…
Category: China
China : More vicarious travel, are we envious? Not sure
Another blog from our friends in Shanghai. As we have frequently found if you’re feeling a bit under the weather, your own bed at home is where you want to be. Also celebrating Christmas and New Year in far away countries has always been a disaster for us, I’m not sure about how our friends…
China 2 : Gan Bei
The second in an on-going series of blogs from our friends who recently started working in China. Sounds like a lot of fun, I think. Before we get too far into the year I thought I would issue a warning before I forget. In my first week of work, I got to go to a…
Life in Shanghai
If you have been paying attention you will know that this blog is about retirement, broadly speaking. I have taken the opportunity, wherever possible, or, more accurately where I could persuade them, to record other people’s ‘retirement’ experiences. I did this with two friends who spent six months working in China. I called this ‘2…
Home
If you had asked me what I would do in retirement I would probably have said – travel. If not that then that we would live in far distant places. We would have freedom to define a new life and that would probably mean living abroad somewhere at least for a part of each year….
Psychology in China: How Do You Really Feel?
I’ve fallen a bit behind with posting about our friends in China. One of their posts got so much in the way of spam comments I had to take it off the blog and this meant my additions got out of whack. But I’ve just received this blog and thought it was so interesting that…
West vs East: daily cultural differences
There are so many little behaviors we learned to avoid when we were children. Our parents admonished us for such things as picking our nose, scratching our butts, eating with our mouths open etc. Most of us, as American adults, have collectively eliminated a cluster of behaviors our culture finds repugnant. We have so successfully…
Teaching in China : I guess the grass is not always greener!
The Wall We have been in China now for just over a month. Life has been good. We have reconnected with friends and gotten into a rhythm with teaching, playing and socializing. Rich is particularly settled into his many writing classes and I love my graduate course, Psychology for Language Teachers. Other than a few…
Another bonus blog from our friends retiring to teach in China
THE WEEKEND (September 2, 2013) A typical weekend at home in Vermont includes brief trips into Middlebury to have breakfast or coffee with a friend, get my mail, walk around the farmer’s market, Pick up a few things at local stores and then go home. Rich tends to stay at home puttering around the house, yard or working…
More from our friends in China : do we envy them?
FROM THE FIRST DAY TO NOW (TUESDAY) Since Friday, life has slowed down and we are beginning to establish a comfortable routine. Friends have started to contact us expressing an eagerness to get together. We have eaten out a few times, once by ourselves. It is fascinating to order from a menu you can’t read. I have taken out…