BOMA
Chao comes to Kansas
YEEEEHAW! Said the Chinese cowboy Chao Wang. I can now record the end of a very special Project Boma experience as my friend Chao has traveled to my home in Wichita, Kansas. I did not quite manage to roll out the red carpet for my guest, but we certainly did our best. The trip was [...]
Pictures of China from around 1920
Bonus Post China then and now These are pictures of pictures from my uncle Jim Welling. I saw them over Thanksgiving break when I was preparing to come to China. I showed them to Chao and he thought I should post them on the blog, and since I have some downtime this New Year’s Day [...]
Putuoshan, Christmas, Changchun
Happy New Year everyone! 新年快乐! Xin Nian Kuai Le! Nothing like a new year in a new (to me) country! Last night and this morning were and are times of reflection in the Wang household. I joined in to ponder the past year, and look ahead to the adventure of 2013. During my reflection, I [...]
Shanghai/Wuzhen
level 2 part 1 上海 （Shanghai）12/19-20/2012 Shanghai, China is our first real destination on our Boma tour. No, I did not get “shanghai’d”, but Chao and I stayed in one of the finest hotels in China, the finest my eyes have ever seen. One of my biggest concerns in coming to China was using the [...]
My First China Blog
邓山姆 DengShanMu China Blog or 邓文轩 Deng Wenxuan as my other Chinese name is. American: Sam Stuart level 1 part 1 The first thing that comes to mind on my trip to the Far East? It’s more like a clusterbomb of thoughts. One of them is the song “What’s in A Name?” by the artist [...]
Where do you like it better?
“Where do you like it better? Here or back home?” is the most common question I get once I start talking about being from Nepal. Most of the times I answer with a simple, “They are both very special for different reasons.” I then get a nod and we start talking about something else. After [...]
Eating at a Home Away From Home
One of the joys of traveling is the ability to enjoy a new cuisine. In America, we pride ourselves on having food from many cultures from around the world, but it is never comparable to the real foreign cuisine. In China, I learned what my Chinese friends had already described to me. There are big [...]
Xi’an: An Ancient City of China
My summer is like the movie Inception. I keep falling deeper into travels and farther away from my reality at Lafayette. I will make my way back, but Xi’an is the farthest I will go. From Easton to Lancaster to Conifer to Dalian and finally to Xi’an, I have traveled around the world and back [...]
Chinese Cultural Immersion
After three wonderful weeks in Colorado, Helen and I are continuing our BOMA project. We came to my home, Dalian, China! We took an airplane from Denver to Los Angeles then to Seoul and then finally to Dalian. The airplane from Denver to Los Angeles was three hours late. We were running late for [...]
Dalian: a Modern City of China
Sometimes I forget that I am in China. Dalian feels western to me from the architecture to the cars on the street to the shops that I see. The fact that I am in a city often feels like a bigger difference to me than the fact that I am halfway around the world from [...]