Entries by AlanPaul

Old men playing chinese chess

I took this video the day I walked through the “there goes the neighborhood” neighborhood. This was a pretty sweet spot sitting hard between two huge construction sites. It will probably be gone in six months. Then these guys who have probably lived there all their life will get some compensation that affords them a […]

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More hoops video

This captures a bit of how agressive Chinese fans were in going for autographs. This was American Rashid Byrd, whom they really don’t care much about. You should have seen them going after Yi Jianlin.

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Terrible story

I somehow ended up following this story closely. Very, very sad. San Francisco ChronicleSearchers find missing dad’s body Peter Fimrite, Jaxon Van Derbeken and Marisa Lagos James Kim Found Dead (12-06) 17:04 PST GRANTS PASS, ORE. — James Kim died in the southern Oregon mountains after what one rescue leader described as a “superhuman” trek […]

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Visa renewal

We had a pretty classic trip to the police visa station yesterday.. I wrote about this place last year.. you go in and it’s just a huge hall filled with people and I mean filled. All foreigners have to go there to renew their long-term visas, but it is 90 percent or more Chinese. I’m […]

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Eli letter

Eli saw a picture of himself with Miss Deanna, his teacher from last year who has moved back to Florida and said how much he missed her. He decided to wrte her a letter. Here it is.

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Holiday shows

Eli and Jacob had their big holiday shows the last two nights. They were held in a large Chinese high school with a full on stage, huge auditorium, etc. The kids were very very excited and it all went off well. I think Eli was more fired up for this than anything ever. He did […]

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Dixie Update

Wow. What a world. Dixie and David Kann are on a ski trip in Aspen/Snowmass. They got out there when it was -5 degrees and 24 inches of new snow. Take the bad with the good. DK took this video of Dixie in Snowmass and emailed it to me here in China..I uploaded it to […]

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