ChanTwo
Introduction
Coming from Buffalo, New York (the home of "Buffalo wings," though we call them "chicken wings" or just "wings" in Buffalo). I am teaching at a university in Ji'an, Jiangxi Province China. I previously taught at a university in Pingdingshan, Henan Province, China, a middle school n Zibo, Shandong Province, China, and a language school in Astana, Kazakhstan. If you're willing to send me cigars, I accept donations.
I joined expat.com on 05 October 2012.
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ChanTwoposted on the thread Using Gmail in China?
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ChanTwoposted on the thread non native English speaker, non ESL trained. any chance?
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ChanTwoposted on the thread non native English speaker, non ESL trained. any chance?
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ChanTwoposted on the thread Zibo, Shandong Province?
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ChanTwoposted on the thread Cigars in Pingdingshan
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Expat experience
The campus of the university where I live and work is beautiful!
Cigars are really hard to find and the few I've been able to find are expensive (36 RMB for one Great Wall No. 1 cigar and 120 RMB for a much smaller Great Wall cigar).
There are some good places to eat. There's a really great coffee shop called Photo Coffee.
Topography and air quality (the latter often going into the hazardous range). This small city of around 5 million people isn't as well developed as Zibo, Shandong Province.
Awaiting a visa for a new location.
Beautiful city. Great food. You should definitely try the beshbarmak!
Clothing is insanely expensive! Peanut butter and cigars are nearly impossible to find.
I moved down to Buffalo (where I worked) from Niagara Falls, New York.
Great food (we invented what other places call "Buffalo wings," but we call them "chicken wings"), great architecture, great festivals.
Winter! The slowness with which people are willing to accept change.
I was stationed here with the United States Navy until July 1992, when I left the Navy during the post-Cold War downsizing.
San Diego is one of the best cities in America in which to live. The weather is always great! El Cajon is a valley just east of San Diego and the weather there is usually either 20 degrees (F) warmer or cooler depending on the time of year.
It's in California.
I was stationed here with the United States Navy's Seventh Fleet flagship until December 1983, when I transferred to a destroyer squadron staff in San Diego, California.
Yokosuka was a nice, bustling city when I was there. I liked the adventure of wandering through the open-air markets and of trying to order food in a restaurant when you don't speak Japanese.
It got a bit cold in the winter.
I was born and raised here. I left after graduating high school in 1981 to serve in the United States Navy until July 1992. By November 1992, I was again living in Niagara Falls until I moved to Buffalo (where I work) in October 2001.
The falls after which the city is named is one of the natural wonders of the world. The park surrounding the American side of the falls is the first state park in the United States and was designed by famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (who also designed the park system in Buffalo, NY and New York City's Central Park).
The city itself is a really depressing place and has been since its downfall from being a manufacturing mecca in the 1960s.
