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My biff with shopping in China
Cheap clothes, really cheap clothes, I must have been dreaming. That was until I was rudely awoken by the shop assistant telling me I could not try on that really cute dress. “Small” she said...
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Mime Conversationalist
I’m living in China, a country where English isn’t spoken as widely as most English speakers would like. Despite all my efforts I epically fail at speaking Mandarin or picking up any second language...
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Half Time: Chinese Apartment VS Sasha
“Half time in the game of Chinese Apartment Vs Sasha and the Chinese Apartment has a clear lead of 4-1 with an amazing display of exploding toilets, power failures and flooding. In the second half can...
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My Love, Hate Relationship with Shanghai
Shanghai, known as the “Pearl of the East”, the designer jewel in China’s crown, a city of affluence, a city of success, a meld of eastern and western cultures. Just a few months into living in China...
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Rediscovering China, Rediscovering Inspiration
It had been rare in the past year for me to lack inspiration, inspiration was everywhere I walked, everywhere I sat and gazed, I was surrounded by fodder for my writing. Then something happened,...
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Losing My Spirit to Settlement
It’s a feeling I hate, the feeling of going nowhere, the feeling of stagnation. It’s draining, it drains your happiness, it drains your excitement and it drains your spirit. For months I’ve felt this...
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Living Abroad Made Me Appreciate My Parents
Living abroad and travelling has changed me in so many ways, it has changed how I deal with people, how I live my life, how I view the world, it has also made me more appreciative of all the things I’m...
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Choosing a Life Without Easter Eggs
There is a perpetual downside of travelling and living abroad, all the home comforts you miss out on! I realised this fact when Easter came around, the second Easter I would spend in China. I didn’t...
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