Sam At Large

Today is my last day in Changsha before I go to Hengyang. It has certainly been an amazing experience to be here in this city of 10 million people… which is considered a second- or third-tier city, by Chinese standards. Last night, the entire Changsha team, international staff and board members got together for dinner.  [...]

Not really a lot to report as I’ve been in meetings for the last couple of days.  But, I’ve a had a chance to sample some more of the local cuisine and it’s pretty darn awesome. There’s another aspect to China that I didn’t know about until getting here.  Massage.  Not the weird type, before [...]

Word to the wise: don’t let someone die in front of your place of business. As I arrived with a couple of new friends at the Lighthouse facility this morning, we noticed this crowd of people all looking at something on the sidewalk.  It turns out it was someone who died.  We think he was [...]

I don’t think I’m going to do a blog post for every single day. That would probably be a little crazy. But I thought I’d share a couple of hightlights from yesterday (Sunday) and a bit more about today. I’ve been pretty impacted by this trip already. I knew that seeing kids who have been [...]

Apparently it takes quite a few to change the tire on an Air China jet at the Beijing Airport. At one point, I counted at least eight workers standing around the front landing carriage. Two were actually crouched down using tools… the rest were on quality control duty. I should point out that this did [...]