Back home – expats share their journey of returning to Guangzhou during pandemic
When the epidemic started in China, many foreigners living in Guangzhou were on holidays or went back in their home country. Now they are returning to their life and work, perhaps for their pets! I interviewed three foreigners on their experience of returning to Guangzhou, what happened at the airport and how they feel being in home or hotel quarantine. Fabiola from Canada Fabiola has been living and working in Guangzhou for 8 years, most of the expat community knows her as one of the co-founders of Global Friendship. She and her husband had flown to Canada for Christmas, then traveled in Mexico. After the holiday and realizing the situation…
This is how I would prepare my family and my business for a pandemic
I woke up to the situation of new coronavirus late, only last day of the Chinese year we started to realize this was going to be serious. Still we thought it’s just going to be one month and things can get back to normal. Now more than two months later China is slowly getting back to normal, when rest of the world are struggling or beginning to struggle with the pandemic. Now if I was living in Finland where we still have less than 100 cases (or could go back in time 2 months), this is how I would prepare my self, my family and especially my business. Home and…
