Julie Warner, captain of the New England Patriots cheerleading squad, leads her team to Beijing to teach Chinese cheerleaders a few Olympic tricks

Training Center

6:00 a.m. With the time change it's 6 p.m. in the United States. How can it be time to get up ... Read more »

City Weekend’s Olympic specialist, Miranda Lin, sets off with one mission: to find out exactly how locals and expats are feeling about the upcoming Olympics

Home9:30 a.m. Rise and shine. I hate my alarm clock. I throw it across the room and roll around for another ... Read more »

American expat Zach Fander has strong opinions about America and, as you’ll see below, he’s not afraid to express them

Morning7:40 a.m. Alarm goes off but I’m too tired to get up, so I hit the snooze button a few times.

8:06 Finally ... Read more »

We were so excited by the first ever Fashionista photo shoot that we just had to know how our uber-stylist Meili Autumn pulled it off.

Snooze8:45 a.m. Wake up after hitting the snooze button for 45 minutes. I’m supposed to be at the studio at 9 ... Read more »

Jim Boyce, one of Beijing’s most notorious and elusive nightlife and wine bloggers, takes us from Tom Wolfe to Sanlitun and back again

Breakfast

9:05 a.m. Eat yogurt, granola, an apple and-just to be healthy-a homemade burrito. Clean kitchen, fold laundry. I am my own ayi.

9 ... Read more »

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Freelance correspondent John Krich takes us from the baseball diamond to the Great Wall to canap-¦s with Hall of Famer Dave Winfield

5:12 AM. They say this is a glamorous life. Here I am, being paid to hob-nob with some of my all-time sporting idols as ... Read more »

Love him or hate him, Block8 guru Sebastien Noat refuses to compromise on anything-except maybe which DVD to watch.

Morning Routine10:55 a.m. The alarm goes off-I hate the sound. Switch on CNN to observe global developments, the Olympics trail and Obama’s political future

11:06 Last ... Read more »

In the thick of this historically tight political race, local Democratic activist Erin Keogh takes us to her recent Get Out the Vote drive.

Home6:30 a.m. Wake up when my husband leaves for work. I usually try to sleep a bit later, but I want to check ... Read more »

Neither four flights of flights of stairs nor the Chinese word for cilantro deters SALT Executive Chef Daniel Urdaneta from creating the best cuisine in Beijing.

Home

7:45 a.m. Scary alarm clock wakes me from relaxing in the Bahamas. Enjoy last bit of dream as I head to ... Read more »

Sound engineer Yuli Chen takes us through three layers of security into the nerve center for the Olympic Opening Ceremony.

Recording Studio/Home

8:10 a.m. Hear Hit FM half-dreaming. Remember my gf asked me to set the alarm 10 minutes early.

9:05 Say bye to my gf ... Read more »

Beijing fashion model Tina Zhang wears a miniskirt and high heel shoes while bouncing on a bed-all for the sake of haute couture.

Home-Chaoyang Park

8:00 a.m. The alarm goes off. I struggle to get up for my 9:30 a.m. photo shoot.

8:20 Wash up ... Read more »

In honor of the Beijing International Literary Festival, raconteur and former Random House Chief Representative Yan P. Zhang takes us on an allusive adventure.

Home

Midnight Whiskeyed and Wii tennis weary, I hear a rapping at my chamber door. When I peek out, nobody's there, only a placard on ... Read more »

Last year Chris Rehage decided he’d had enough of sedentary life in China, so he decided to go back to Germany—by foot.

Hotel in Linfen, 250 km north of Xi’an

8:00 a.m. Wake up to alarm clock. Open eyes, extend arm from sleeping bag, touch ... Read more »

Lonely, single, gripped by the Valentine blues? Follow Beijing’s single specialist, Allison Johnson, as she takes aim with Cupid’s bow.

Home—Andingmen

10:00 a.m. Can’t sleep anymore. I’m preoccupied about tonight’s speed dating event, even numbers are important.

10:30 Check email and ... Read more »