Western Life in an Asian World!

Do you remember that movie? I don't remember much. But I remember the title. I think someone was on trial and he had a crazy cousin from...

Every fall term I teach a class called The Bible and Christianity. This alone is very rare and special in China. I have never heard of any...

I’m not really a big fan of cheesy Christian movies. I have friends who JUST love Faith Like Potatoes, that marriage movie, Courageous and ...

As my taxi pulled in to my city, I had a rush of excitement in my heart. Familiar signs, characters, places and people were all around. Ok....

It's Week 2, here on the East Side. The semester doesn't really feel like it's in full swing, but I'm sure by next month, I...

Do you know that song, "Love hurts! Love blah!" Ok, well, I can't remember the rest, but I think it true in the Christ-sense. ...

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to hand out 50 Bible to my students. I teach 6 Oral English classes. But every once in a while,...

November 11th is Singles Day here. For some it's quite a "sad" day. Mostly girls are pretty dramatic about still being single....

Students 2011 from michelle on Vimeo .

New students and a whole bunch of new memories... Americans eat sandwiches every day. Like the TV show Friends. Student -Americans are ...

School is wonderful. Sometimes during the semester I think, "Is this my life? Semester after semester...Over and over again...?" A...

Love This week in class we discussed Love Languages. If you haven't heard of these before, I'll fill you in real quick. Some guy wro...

If you have not read Teaching...part 1 , then go do that before you read this post. One week later. My roommate Jessica, gave me a little pe...

The last couple of weeks I had to do some. . .disciplining in my classes. I guess, that's what you could call it. I try to keep my posts...

Well, today is April Fool's Day. I was unaware that people here or I guess students would participate in such a day. So, I had some ques...

This week in class we are doing some discussion questions. The students bring in topics and I choose a couple for us to talk about. The hot ...

(Today is my birthday!) My day started with waking up at 7 am because that is the time my kids get up...Just kidding! But I feel like most p...

Teaching... from michelle on Vimeo . This is a little video about baking with my English classes and interviews with my students in my Bib...

Today was a make up day. In Asia, they often have to make up days that they take off. I'm not sure why. I don't like it and most of ...