Inauguration: the Kat's Miao

Greetings out to the ether:

I'm proud to inaugurate my latest attempt at putting something out into the world worthy of being read.

"The Kat's Miao." The title deserves a brief explanation. The cat's MEOW, you say? Well, almost. As most people who would deign to read this blog would know, I spent last year in China. In Guizhou Province, home to many of China's ethnic minorities. It so happens that I lived in the city of Kaili (凯里), population 400,000: the seat of the autonomous region of the Miao and Dong people. I briefly considered naming the blog "Kat's Dong," but thought that would give a quite different, and rather mistaken, impression. So I'd like to welcome you to The Kat's Miao: a play on phonetics that is also a personal reference for this author.

(Myself with my host sisters just outside of Kaili)