For the most part, the Changchun Friends website is not very active and has been superseded by the Tencent "Wechat" app by the local expat community. This website is maintained sporadically, people may still join and membership is still open, but if you are a spammer, stay away. The archived information here is still useful, but some may be out of date. There are plans to make it more useful for static information in the future. If anyone needs information about Changchun or China, you may post a message and it probably will get a response but not immediately.

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April 2012 Blog Posts (26)

OLD UNWANTED PHONES

This is just a quick appeal to the notably generous choonie community. A mate of mine lost his iphone today and is looking for a replacement phone. Not an iphone. Just an old secondhand simple one. We're happy to buy him a cheap new one but would rather ask everyone else first. Happy to pay too.

Back in oz i had about 3 old phones lying around and have lost about 10 in my…

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Added by Jack Field on April 6, 2012 at 16:29 — 10 Comments

Iconic album cover of the Beatles updated

here is an updated version of the famous Sgt pepers album done by the same artist peter Bllake. Who has been added?…

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Added by Richard Roman on April 2, 2012 at 16:06 — 1 Comment

American English vs Aussie English vs the Queens English

I don't really count the Aussies as they just shorten perfectly good words such as barbeque to barbie

With the aim of avoiding such fraught linguistic ambiguities, I have produced, below, a list of the British words  along with their American equivalents. God save the Queen!

Wellies: Rubber boots

Newsagent: Newsdealer

Candy floss: Cotton candy

Flat: Apartment

Bum bag: Fanny pack

Holiday: Vacation

Victoria sponge: Sponge…

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Added by Richard Roman on April 1, 2012 at 16:12 — 13 Comments

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