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By Tara Overzat I struggle to live in the “now.” As kids, this was so easy. Why is it so hard as adults? Maybe becuase we can’t shake the shackles of our memories, both good and bad. We want to
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Posts in category Asia
Chinese Marriage Fraud- How the Few Denigrate the Many
By Tara Overzat Desperate times, desperate measures. Young, pretty girls trapped in a Communist country, where college grads are hugely disproportionate to available jobs, where the middle class is growing but hundreds of millions of peasants still work the soil, and where unattractive, unsuccessful foreign men go to escape,
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US Journalists in N. Korea Sentenced to 12 Years
By Tara Overzat Laura Ling, Euna Lee, US journalists doing a story on North Korean women fleeing into North China, were captured by North Korean border guards three months ago. After a 5 day kangaroo trial, they have been sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp.
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David Carradine, Tourists Die Mysteriously
By Tara Overzat David Carradine was “found” dead in his luxury hotel suite in Bangkok, and according to Thai police, was first thought a suicide. The deaths of Jill St. Onge and a Norweigian tourist, who were staying at the same Thai hotel on Koh Phi Phi, were initially blamed
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Cheating on the Rise?
By Tara Overzat Cheating was ubiquitous when I was an expat in China. I witnessed firsthand the cavalier expatriates and frequent businessmen to Asia who cheated on their wives. One clever man told me
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Obama Making Us Less Safe?
By Tara Overzat It appears the security of Americans abroad has dropped since President Obama took office. Within his few months in office, Somali pirates attacked US ships for the first time (taking the captain hostage), an American journalist was thrown into an Iranian prison, and two journalists are being held against their will in [...]
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All That Glitters
I wrote this article last August, a few days after the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Sadly, I think little has changed, as stories of corruption and violence continue to leak out of the tightly controlled Chinese media. The original article can be found at The Atlasphere. ********************** All That Glitters by Tara Overzat [...]
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A Duty to Vote?
by Kushal Sharma **** This post on the right to vote appeared recently on the blog Unspoken Words. The author is from, and writing about, India, but the message is true the world over. Enjoy! ~ Tara Overzat **** So the charade continues. I saw this ad where a guy approaches a girl in the [...]
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How to Teach in China
by Tara Overzat I’m often asked how my teaching experience was in China. While I love teaching and would say my overall experience was good, there are some pitfalls that future teachers going to China and elsewhere may want to keep in mind. 1) Fake contracts. I actually left the safety and comfort of America [...]
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Visas, City Lights, Bacalhau à Brás, and Casinos
by Tara Overzat The first time I did this South China/Hong Kong trip, it was a result of a lot of chutzpah and some half-assed planning with a Lonely Planet book (I highly recommend getting the most recent version of the book available before traveling to China— their information, while not perfect is pretty spot [...]
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