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Reverse Culture Shock
[…] with celebratory messages and photos nor are we welcomed into the celebration. Here it’s a celebration for the Asians in the community, or those who want to view Asian culture from the vantage point of spectators from another ethnicity. We have become invisible Asians, and our white ethnicity is painfully isolating us from being […]
Things I Wish I’d Known
Part 2 of a multi-part series on cross-cultural adjustment, "Going to China." Support development, job training, vaccinations, visas, and packing luggage to precisely 50 lbs. a piece are merely the tip of the iceberg when preparing for life in China. These tasks, though necessary, often don’t prepare you for what to expect in the […]
Skills No Longer Needed
[…] from the city or the countryside. Looking out the window from the tenth or seventeenth floor and having a sense of the pollution level based on the view. To wash dishes in sinks where there is only one sink, and perhaps no plug. Soaping dishes without water in that sink and rinsing them as […]
Uncovering a Hidden Need in China
One Expat Family’s Adoption Story
[…] decided to share our journey of adoption, with all its sensitivities, in hope of encouraging others who are considering adoption. I also hope to change how people view the needs concerning adoption, specifically in China. For those wanting to adopt from China it is a long road lined with paperwork and set-backs, but the […]
Having Gone to China, I’m Thankful I Learned . . .
[…] against fear in order to love the orphan, educate the community about the spread of HIV in schools, families, and communities, and to treat those with the virus. I am thankful to have served alongside one of the many church-led movements reaching out where society fails. An increased culinary palette This might sound frivolous, […]
Things I Wish I Had Done
[…] another, and admit we both need to grow in wisdom and understanding of what church is. Showed more grace in the midst of culture stress. Our first visitors in China were world travelers. They’d visited more countries and people groups than we had, but the moment they landed in China they were incapacitated. Language, […]
A Village with My Name
A Book Review
A Village with My Name: A Family History of China’s Opening to the World, by Scott Tong. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 272 pages, 2017. Each of us lives through a series of events and then packages them in a particular way. Scott Tong Finding one’s ancestral past seems to be trending. I see […]
In the HIV Medical System
[…] the Elim staff, we would never have survived the language barrier much less the process. Up and down stairs to various reception areas for billing, receiving blood vials, and blood withdrawals until we finally got my daughter’s prescription. One day, after about a year and a half of living this routine, I stood in […]
Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned
[…] these weird conversational loops with neighbors or strangers. They’d go something like this: Chinese mom out playing with her young son: How old is your daughter? It’s vital to know this, by the way. The most common/polite way for the son to greet my daughter is to either call her jie jie (‘older sister’) […]