A Totally Impractical Guide to Living in Shanghai
This is a blog about the minutiae of daily life in Shanghai- the streets, the people, the food, the oddities, the unexpected. It is a combination of surreptitious mobile phone photography and observational writing. It has been known to be both funny and moving at the same time.
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I May Have Just A Wee Bit Too Much on My Plate
It’s just after 7:30am on an inexplicably cool morning. Shanghai is invisible under the fog. It’s just as well as I’m still in bed, under several layers of duvet, strong, lightly milked coffee in hand. I may or may not be staring at the wall opposite . I’m freaking tired. I just spent four days [...]I May Have Just A Wee Bit Too Much on My Plate is a post from: A Totally Impractical Guide to Living in ShanghaiPosted on 14 May 2012 | 2:22 am
What Does it Take For a Girl to Get a Passport Around Here? Adventures in Being Canadian Abroad
I’m still Canadian. I say this with a certain degree of relief because, well, until yesterday my passport had been in the hands of the Canadian Consulate in Shanghai and I was getting a very strong impression that they were on the verge of revoking my citizenship because… because… well, do they even need a [...]What Does it Take For a Girl to Get a Passport Around Here? Adventures in Being Canadian Abroad is a post from: A Totally Impractical Guide to Living in ShanghaiPosted on 4 May 2012 | 9:37 am
Gardening in Shanghai and Other Indoor Sports
Doug said this morning that he really wouldn’t put it past me if I started raising chickens in the flat. I wondered if the neighbours would notice or care if I beheaded said chickens out in the shared hallway, between the lifts and the parked bicycle. That awful 3-legged yappy dork-dog from across the hall [...]Gardening in Shanghai and Other Indoor Sports is a post from: A Totally Impractical Guide to Living in ShanghaiPosted on 27 April 2012 | 4:43 am
Mapping the Amorphous City: I Attempt to Plot a Walking Tour of Shanghai
One thing I have learned from two years of writing here (and from approximately 30 years of writing in general) is that I can be factual, accurate and interesting- but never all three at the same time. Most of my university career was spent writing wildly ‘factual’ papers that my professors deemed interesting enough to [...]Mapping the Amorphous City: I Attempt to Plot a Walking Tour of Shanghai is a post from: A Totally Impractical Guide to Living in ShanghaiPosted on 16 April 2012 | 1:58 am
Amber Roshay Moved Back to the US and Wrote About it (And Also Wrote a Book That We’re Giving Away Here)
Some of you might remember the lovely Amber Roshay from her interview last year. She was the one whose students had prepared an awesome and very emotional surprise party for her. She’s also a very good friend of mine- one who happened to leave Shanghai and move back home to the US at the beginning of this [...]Amber Roshay Moved Back to the US and Wrote About it (And Also Wrote a Book That We’re Giving Away Here) is a post from: A Totally Impractical Guide to Living in ShanghaiPosted on 12 April 2012 | 12:53 am
