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The Candy Queen’s New Year’s Give-away: Part 2
The Candy Queen! Getting ready for my yearly New Year’s give-away of treats. For me, my Year of the Horse gift-giving began at 6:30 a.m. for my morning swim at the pool. After grabbing the first big...
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Mrs. Obama: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Mrs. Obama spent today in Chengdu with a gathering at the elite No. 7 High School, just up the road from me. I heard the school has a distance-learning program bringing quality education to rural,...
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Kitty in Need: My First 2014 Act of Mercy
My walks to and from class take me about 20 minutes once I leave my apartment complex. My 20-minute walk through the campus provides some lovely spring scenery. Last year, I quickly found the best...
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A 3-day Weekend: Tomb Sweeping Festival (清明节—Qing Ming Jie)
From past entries, faithful followers will already know about this 1-day holiday, falling on April 5, which was added to China’s official “days off” list several years ago. It is a time when city and...
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U.S. Consulate Talk Today: Welcome First time Visitors to Connieinchina.org!
Today, it’s off to the Consulate this afternoon to introduce my Chinese Chengdu audience to Marshall, Illinois, my hometown. Everything is ready to go, including the powerpoint tour of our trip...
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Wesley Looking for a Home: “你好！我叫卫斯利”
(Note: I am using an ancient computer that is no longer allowing access to certain features of my website or hotmail account. If you don’t hear from me for awhile, that’s why!) Before beginning a new...
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An Ending to Our Wesley Story
Clean litterbox! Cool. Yesterday, I said “Goodbye” to our campus rescue, Wesley. It wasn’t the goodbye I had envisioned, nor the one I had hoped for, but it is the one that has transpired,...
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Finishing Up Promised News: US Consulate Talk
My time is winding down here in the big city of Chengdu. I will finish my Chinese language classes on May 1, which is the UN proclaimed international holiday, Labor Day. China observes this with 3 days...
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She’s 50 Today, Folks! A Note from the Birthday Girl
Currently, I am in Chengdu where the rental room’s XP computer limits my website use of all the bells and whistles it usually has. No ability to post pictures and the homepage is all ascew but I did...
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My Sense of Patriotic Duty Misses the Mark Among the Chinese
Mrs. Zhao and her poodle, Hairy Bean, on the campus of Sichuan University in Chengdu My many years of teaching English in China have given me numerous opportunities to share my American culture with...
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