Highlights from Spring 2021
After Chinese New Year and the traditions we used the last day of the holiday to do a spontaneous road trip in Zhaoqing city along the small dirt roads. We stumbled upon an old port that offered amazing views to a bamboo forest and a river. Wish we could have taken a cruise there! Last year we launched the Pause Box, a monthly surprise gift box available in China. On March 8th we had our first event to celebrate the International Women’s Day and got our community together for unboxing. Starting a new business has been both inspiring and tiring, it’s a constant balance between businesses and personal life. But…
Chinese New Year in Photos
Chinese New Year in 2021 was a special one for us, not because of the locations as we always stay at home, but due to our guests we had over. We have six guests joining us to learn more about Chinese New Year traditions and especially how a Cantonese family celebrates the beginning of the new year. If you want to see more on what we did during Chinese New Year, check out this video below on YouTube. For more interesting content about life in Guangzhou, check out our channel Guangzhou Expat
Spending Christmas in China, again
This year was supposed to be the first year that we spend the Christmas in Finland with my family, we all know now that all those plans went to waste this year. Instead we are again trying to make the best of our holidays here in China. Recently Miriam from Youtube channel called Miriam in China asked me to join her video and sharing our plans for the Christmas this year. She is from Sweden and I’m from Finland so we bet we have some similar wished for the holiday season. (See her YouTube video above or click here!) After spending all Christmas holidays in China since 2010, I’m quite…
Living abroad and away from my family
Last time I wrote about why I moved to China and enjoy living here. Even I like living in China and don’t plan to move back to Finland in the near future, it doesn’t make it any easier to be away from my family. I admit I’m not the best person in keeping touch with my family members and relatives. I might go long times without being in touch. Though I have to say it seems my whole family is like that. Due to that we are not very actively in touch with each other and it bothers me the older I get. When I was younger I wasn’t missing…
