Spring is Here
After many weeks of unseasonably cold weather here in Chengdu (and around the world, in fact), we have started to …
Category Archives: General
ChunJie Holiday: the last day
The Chinese New Year holiday is not a one day affair; it’s a two week period. So though we have …
ChunJie pictures
We’ve posted pictures from our Spring Festival break in Chengdu! Since we stayed in town, we took the opportunity to …
Chinese New Year Fireworks
We survived the onslaught. Like I said from the war zone last night, the fireworks kept going from about 7.00pm …
Happy Chinese New Year
It’s almost 12.30 in the morning, and Sarah and I aren’t sleeping. We would be, except for all the fireworks …
Newsletter
Sarah and I have published our winter newsletter. You can download it here. Usually we publish this newsletter at Christmas …
Weekend Events and Website Changes
We started our Chinese New Year break with three days of not sleeping in. Very sad. But the time has …
Field Trip
Today was the last school day before our two-week break for Chinese New Year, so at CDIS we typically try …
thawing out… and moving on
The snow has been a fun surprise (it was on the rooftops again yesterday morning!), but that’s not the only …
Snow – Really
I (Dan) am from New York, so I’m used to seeing snow – lots of it. And while Sarah may …
Dan and Sarah Roeber 