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Katie

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you

About Me

I have the greatest husband I could have wished for and we've been living in China, teaching English, since August 2005. :) Oh and we just got a new puppy who has recently become the center of our universe! I can't believe it - I've become one of those people! hehe =)If you want to see more of my pictures, visit my Flickr site... http://www.flickr.com/photos/katienchina/

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My Interests

Running, photography, traveling, reading, camping, hiking, beach days, friends, family, music...

I'd like to meet:

A dark chocolate bar I don't want to devour & a Chinese hairstylist who will give me a decent trim (I miss Patricia!) :-)
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Music:

Led Zepplin, The Doors, Alpha Blondie, Eek A Mouse, A Tribe Called Quest, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Franz Ferdinand, Velvet Underground, Neil Young, The Byrds, CCR, Moody Blues, Ben Harper, TOOL (just doesn't get any better!), Interpol, The Rolling Stones... I like everything!

Movies:

I looooved Marie Antoinette!!!!! It should have won every award in the book, but alas the judges are laaaaame!! :) Other favorites include Apocalypse Now, Mean Girls, Gold Member, It's All Gone Pete Tong, Lost in Translation, Life Aquatic, House of D, The Milagro Bean field Wars, Hero and much, much more!

Television:

As in CCTV9??!

Books:

Recently... anything by Amy Tan, The Lovely Bones, Wild Swans, and anything else I can get my hands on over here! (It's not easy finding good books in China!)

Heroes:

Emily, because she taught me to live life to its fullest, and all my other friends for being amazing and strong girls.

My Blog

First impressions of Lhasa...

Well, we just arrived in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, yesterday. The airport is about an hour ride from the center of the city, so we had lots of time to analyze the ridiculous behavior of the Ch...
Posted by Katie on Wed, 02 May 2007 11:14:00 PST

News from the Hump Hostel!

We just arrived in Kunmng, after a pain free 18 1/2 hour train ride (oh yea, we're pros! ).... sitting here, wearing the same clothes I wore yesterday, slept in last night, and will probably wear agai...
Posted by Katie on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:36:00 PST

We're here!

Ok - so I guess it's obvious to say we're here by now! Yeeeah! :-) We finally made it to Chengdu a couple of weeks ago, on my 24th birthday to be exact! What we found in Chengdu was POLAR opposite to...
Posted by Katie on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:01:00 PST