Bridget O'Donnell

The city of Shenzhen has changed dramatically in the last three decades.

Egg fruits are more delicious than their appearance would suggest.

Beijing people sound like pirates. Naturally, there’s a t-shirt for sale online celebrating this phenomenon.

Just a few hours after my iPhone was stolen yesterday, I came back to my dorm to find a man installing a steel-frame door with bars. I’m not sure if this was my school’s way of responding to the incident — I was pickpocketed on the street, after all — but it’s an interesting solution [...]

IMG_9198, originally uploaded by Sheryl McKee Unfortunately, I learned this the hard way today. I was on my routine 10 minute walk to teach classes and had a lot of bags in my hands. I placed the iPhone in a side pocket of my bag — a different pocket than I normally use (and a [...]

Meanwhile, back in Michigan — the land of college football, crunchy leaves, warm cider, candy corn and Pumpkin Spice Lattes — it’s a cool 30°.

Former troublemaker-turned-teacher comes to terms with previous brattiness, deals with current batch of bad students.

Via the NYTimes: “High Blood Pressure Tops the List of Preventable Deaths in China.” Can’t imagine why.

Just because they use characters doesn’t mean all Chinese signs have beautiful fonts.

I recently traveled to Malaysia as part of my National Day Holiday break. Malaysia sits just above the Equator, so the weather was warm and sunny throughout most of the trip. I traveled with five other people from my English teaching program — Leah, Steph, Katie, Katie and Al. Here’s a rundown of what happened, [...]