When I first decided to start this blog, it took me a while to decide what to call it. I read a load of advice about ‘choosing the right name for your blog’, feeling a bit of a fraud whilst struggling with the prospect of becoming a ‘blogger’. I haven’t written a diary since I […]
When my husband and I made the move to China in April 2014, we’d been dating for less than a year. Sadly that means that R hasn’t yet spent as much time with my family as I’d like. We decided to spend Christmas Day 2013 just the two of us, as I live in another […]
I’ve been aiming for HSK 4 pretty much since I passed HSK 3 three years ago, and it took until I was a fulltime Mandarin student this Summer to feel confident I had the required level of understanding and realising I would just need to undertake a bit of vocabulary cramming to get there. Now […]
I haven’t posted for a couple of weeks due to cramming for the HSK level 4, but now that’s over with and celebratory hotpot has been consumed I now have a free Saturday afternoon for catching up with my favourite blogs, eating 桔子 juzi and drinking tea. I’ve recently read some fantastic blog posts about […]
Diaries of a Yangxifu 