I’ve been told I’m a good teacher. I’ve been teaching English for nearly a decade now […]
  Shanghai summers are deeply unpleasant. Temperatures tend to hover in the mid 30s, with weather […]
It’s a funny thing starting an expat/travel blog sixteen years after you started travelling/living elsewhere and […]
  Things have been somewhat unsettled here on the Eastern Front since getting back from Myanmar. […]
One of the things about living in faraway lands that can be frustrating for a nerd […]
  One of the things I’ve noticed in my years of living elsewhere, is that multinational […]
I’ve been stupidly busy this week, between finishing up my year’s marking (done!), trying to find […]
Last night around 10, my immune system decided it felt like inviting a cold around for […]
I haven’t spoken much about my job here. I have another site for that; if you […]
In China, anyway. Andrew at Go Overseas.com has just sent me a purty li’l badge for […]
In the interest of creating mental escape routes for the rainy season, I’m starting a new […]