So here’s the deal.  I’ve been back from Vietnam and South Korea for more than twenty days, and life has been absolutely crazy crazy.  A few days after I arrived, my parents came to Beijing for a week!  It was incredibly wonderful to see them and share my Chinese life with them, however their hotel was all the way on the other of the city, and I spent a considerable amount of time flagging cabs and dropping ‘big’ bucks on transport.  I felt like a chicken with my head cut [...]