Sam At Large

Absolutely mind-blowing how large this station is. Much like the Beijing airport, they build everything huge here.

I’ve always wanted to see a market like this.  This is where western consumerism hasn’t intruded into community life and it’s something I wish we had at home.  Although, imagining people selling live eels in a tub of water or cages of live chickens on the streets of Walnut Grove is pretty funny.

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 [...]

I pretty much spent Day 1 in the air or at Beijing Airport, where all I saw were runways and smog. All those news reports and pictures I have seen with all the smog… it’s true. There is no lie in it at all.  This girl sitting next to me in the plane had the [...]