Who we are
We are Karen and Ivan Rosel, two WaiGuoRen who first came to Chengdu in 2007 (just before the 2008 EQ) with a project to stay in China until 2021. At the time, we only had one contact, a friend of a friend, a Chinese lady teaching English at a Middle/High School called "Chengdu Foreign Languages School" (CFLS) still located today in the North of Chengdu (XiPu) next to where we keep everything being sold here.
Karen, originally from English speaking Canada, is a US-trained Doctor of Chiropractic who used practice in her Clinic in Germany before she met Ivan and they got married. After a year slowly settling down in the new Chinese life teaching English at CFLS, she started her own Consulting Company "TianFuWellness" to be able to offer Chiropractic Consultations to the expat community in Chengdu (BTW, this Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise is also for sale!). Ivan, originally from France, is a French language teacher by training. After he worked at CFLS, he joined the French-Government-approved School called "École Française de Chengdu" then located at the Chengdu Meishi International School (CMIS), still working for 3 other local Chinese Middle and High Schools. He then successively worked for the CMIS and the QSI Chengdu international schools respectively for two and three years. Over the years in Chengdu, we have accumulated sooo much! Comfy furniture, carpets, we even had our bookshelves custom made! Also, praised be IKEA for all the nice birch color (our favorite!) items we have purchased there! And of course, year after year, we always enjoyed going to the expat sales (ah! the QSI yard sales!) to find the best deals :) Well, now is the time for us to say goodbye to Chengdu, to the pandas and to all our 10-year friends: our family project (adopting 2 children!) requires that we relocate to another country, not that far but not that close either (Malaysia). So, it is our turn to have our "Sayonara Sale" hoping to offer to all our nice and comfy furniture and items a new home... Could that home be yours? |