Well, despite being almost two weeks behind the class, today was pretty good.  The class(es) are taught mostly in Mandarin, and predominantly through a mixture of pinyin (romanization with tones/accents) and Chinese characters. My Chinese name [thanks to Chen Yiling for the brilliant name] is (in pinyin) Luó Chăng or, in characters, 罗昶 where – […]

Tomorrow I start Uni here in HangZhou.  Toni has already begun, having started her first few days on Tuesday.  The Uni is not far from where we live, roughly 15 minutes or so by foot north.  The course is “Elementary Chinese”, although from what Toni has said, it’s taught mostly in Mandarin (with occasional English) […]

Here are some pictures of the place we are staying in: Here’s a picture of our bedroom, our little sanctuary from the rest of the world.  The second picture shows the view from the room, it’s not bad, is it? The third is a photo of our new heater (purchased last week) which has been […]