Kristin's Kapers

I returned to Beijing just in time to celebrate Chinese New Year. For the Chinese, this is the absolute most important holiday of the year a...

I'm not a big fan of McDonald's (although I do like McDonald's in China better than in the US), but there is one almost directly...

It's currently Saturday evening and I have just finished packing my bags to go back to Beijing. I can't say I'm really looking f...

If you've read my blog for a while, you know I have clearly been to a hospital in China before. For that matter, I have definitely been ...

A while back I heard about the Christmas Bazaar held each year at the Germany Embassy here in Beijing. I heard that it was really awesome an...

We all make mistakes, this is a surprise to no one. We all make language mistakes. Again, this shouldn't be a surprise. One of my tenth...

My school is set-up very much in a Chinese style. Even though we more or less follow an American curriculum, the students attend all of thei...

A few of our students trick-or-treating. Some of them really dressed up, but I didn't think to take pictures. The entrance to the ...

I teach at the Beijing campus of a US school (the US campuses are K-12, my school only has grades 7-11). All of our students are Chinese and...

This Wednesday marks the beginning of the 19th Party Plenum. Unless you are extremely familiar with China you're probably wondering, ...

The most famous site in China is the Great Wall of China. As someone who has lived in China for over four years (total, not consecutively), ...

Tomorrow, October 1st is National Day. This is when China celebrates the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Now, holida...

Arriving at the arena China is an emerging market. There is more and more wealth in China and it is this wealth that not only provides m...