Archive for August, 2009

A NEW Blog!!

localspoon logoWell, our time in China came to a close and I am sadly trying to adjust to life without excess dumplings and my daily dose of jian bing. I am enjoying traveling around the States, visiting friends and family, and consuming a lot of wine and cheese.

I have also been busy starting a new blog, thelocalspoon.com, which was borne entirely of my love of writing the Food, Glorious Food posts for stephoandcrank. I had such a great time writing about our food exploits in China, about new recipes we tried and restaurants we loved, I figured I had to keep it going stateside — thus thelocalspoon.com! Check it out and let me know what you’d like to hear about, I’d love to get your feedback!

Salty Dogging in China

We’ve been back stateside for nearly a month now and the repatriation process seems to be going well. We’re still in the process of figuring out what we’ll be doing next and where exactly we’ll be doing it. In the meantime, we’re getting some more perspective on our time and experiences in China. While we’re not yet at a point to put our truly profound and well-reflected-upon thoughts into articulately worded blog posts, we can entertain you with dance!

This video was shot over the course of our whole stay in Beijing, the first bit of which was for our newlywed friends, the Hoffmans. The Salty Dog Rag is a Dartmouth Outing Club tradition and Steph and I taught this frisky foxtrot to hundreds of incoming freshmen during the preorientation camping trips program. Interestingly, the native Beijingers and Dartmouth prefrosh had very similar looks on their faces when we first busted out our moves.