Today was one of those “It’s too beautiful to go outside today so why pretend we are sun worshippers, lets stay home and watch a “sex and the city marathon” instead!” type of day. Which is exactly what me and my friend Sean ended up doing for the rest of the day. China has a booming industry of black market DVDs which explains why we already own the complete Friends season episodes right up to the series finale. We also have American Pie 3 and are now up to Home Alone 11. I cannot explain...

Extra lessons Chinese kids are always taking lessons- Its like a yoga or fat free ice cream fad that wont go away. From music lessons, math lessons, karate classes..Parents make sure kids are busy- In china, parents don’t have stories about car pools and cake sales. They compete on a more complicated and different level of hours and hours spent in a school waiting room- yes they have those-the number of classes they can squeeze into an 8 hour Saturday and how many foreign teachers they h...