Beer Primer – Ale or Lager?

In what we hope will become a regular contribution, Bart from The Belgian Bar has dropped us a few lines about beer (strangely enough)…

“Unpacking Laowai”

It’s times like these that I laugh and know we fit the moniker the locals use for us. We hear it multiple times a day whispered by spectators

Balance your life

Life never gets boring when there are things to do and so for my first article in xianease magazine I wanted to bring you all to places of interest to me. For me I am interested in reading, dancing and learning Tai Chi Chuan.

XIS Meets the Magic Duck

A bit ago the Xi’an International School invited xianease down to their campus to watch a play, called “The Confessions of a Magic Duck”, it was written by one of the staff and put on by a group of the students.

“Successes and Failures … Mostly, Failures”

There are a lot of ways to measure a day. Some of us focus on our productivity – how much we accomplish determines the day’s quality.

The Joy Of A Lifetime

I’m Mexican, 66, I teach English at Universidad Juarez Autonoma de Tabasco (UJAT), in the southeast of Mexico.

Dutch Medical mission in Xi’an

Dutch medical team in Xi’an Children’s Hospital