So, spring is in the air in lovely Suzhou. Yes - our two weeks of paradise have arrived, and just in time for the droves of tourists looking to capture a picture of the city’s tranquil gardens (which are overflowing with tourists looking to capture a picture of the city’s tranquil gardens).
Spring always stirs in [...]
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So, that little bump in the road with the site being down marks my third year of running this blog. Well, technically I didn’t start writing on here until I arrive in China in January… but thehumanaught.com is technically three this week.
Additionally, this week marks another anniversary of sorts. It was November 11, 2003, that [...]
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To say Suzhou has a lot of gardens is an understatement somewhat akin to saying China’s got a lot of people.
It’s the fact that there are so many of them that I’ve only slowly crept out to visit them. Much like temples in China, Suzhou’s gardens do tend to blend together. Generally speaking, they all [...]
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Over the last week or so, in between design projects and getting set for my impending return to studenhood, I’ve been helping flesh out the design of a great China charity project - the China Dreamblogue (or Blog of Dreams - I’m still not sure why it has two names).
The extremely ambitious project has been [...]
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One of the toughest things for Maggie and I to get used to about living in Suzhou over living up in her home town in the north-east or mine in Canada is the weather.
We are both used to four distinct seasons running from a warming spring, a hot summer, a cooling fall and a freezing [...]
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