Dealing with cultural differences when you have Bad China Day
Recently one of my blog readers sent me a question related to living in a different culture. I have seen this question popping up frequently so I decided to answer it in a blog post. Her question is: The longer…
30 things about me
1. I have lived 27% of my life in China. I moved here in March 2010 and have only been back home for holidays. 2. I’ve only had four boyfriends, only the first one Finnish and the last one is…
A 2-year-old learning Chinese and Finnish
When our daughter started speaking she spoke mostly Cantonese as she was home with a nanny a lot. But now Mandarin had completely replaced it and Finnish is a good second. At home I speak Finnish with Anna and my…
Living in China without ayi
Life before From Summer 2016 until Summer 2017 we had a full-time ayi, a nanny who took care of our daughter, cleaned and cooked. She lived with us five days per week. During that year we got so spoiled! Dinner…
