One of my friends was teaching English in a “rural” town, relative to China, called Fenyang.  I traveled from Beijing to Fenyang on the train.  It took a while for me to figure out which gate to go to at the station in Beijing because the station was huge and all in Chinese.  When I … More Fenyang–A “Rural” Town

I flew from Yangon to Beijing on the same Malaysian Air flight that had gone missing a year before.  I arrived in Beijing late at night, and my first meal in China was McDonald’s for breakfast the next morning.  I spent a few days in Beijing and was able to see many of the main … More Beijing