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Koombah is Live (Sorta)

Dear Friends,

Thank you all so much for your devoted following. Sorry we've been posting so sparingly as of late. So what have we been up to? In short, we've been working tirelessly to create our website. Besides writing what was hopefully an entertaining and informational blog about living in China, the original goal of our blog is, and was always to promote to our housing service.

After almost a year of borderline slave labor and sleepless nights, we are proud to announce that our site is now up and running. Here are some quick notes about the launch:

We have changed our name to Koombah. Why the change? The word Koombah is derived from the word Kuumba, which means "creativity" in Swahili. When used in context to the African American holiday Kwanzaa, the meaning is "To do always, as much as we can, in the best way we can in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we left it." In the same way, we hope to make the same kind of impact through our service.

So when we say that Koombah is sorta live, we mean that this is an interim site. We will eventually be developing the site over the course of time. For now though, we are still fielding inquiries and you can read more about us. In fact, if you live in Beijing and need help looking for housing, go ahead and contact us!

Just because we are live now doesn't mean we will stop blogging.We've enjoyed sharing with those not living in China and have enjoyed commiserating with those that are. We'll continue blogging to share with you our insights on China and how to get by. We hope that you will continue reading. The blog will eventually be migrated over to a new domain though. Stay tuned.

With that, we present to you Koombah!

-Stan