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Tue, 22 Apr 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [677]
Midterms basically suck for me. I'm stuck in a classroom having mini-conversations with nearly 40 students for an hour and a half. They get to leave after two minutes, but I'm there the entire time trying to deal with the bull shit they're trying ... Read more >
Tags: work
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 | By da_misfit | Views [510] | Comments [1]
Well have started this journal a number of times and the computer has crashed so will just see how this one goes. After a 5 hour bus trip we arrived back from Dali and had planned to stay in a hostel near Green Lake. We hadn't booked but had a brochure.... Read more >
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 | By pwinch | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 22 Apr 2008 | By bobandcie | Views [682] | Comments [3]
(Mes)Dames' et Sieurs' Bien le bonjour. on avance tout doux dans le compte a rebours: Nous avons desormais 8 heures de decalage avec Greenwich. Dedicace speciale aux bebe d'Avril: Julie, Emilie "beaute volcan", Lucie, Raf et tout particulierement ... Read more >
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [305]
Life here is more like it was when the Human Soul came to be. People live closer to the land and what it produces, closer to each other, closer to the elements, closer to our primal past.
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [370]
We saw no Westerners on the train from Xi'an, Shaanxi to Zhongwei, Ningxia. Yesterday we saw no Westerners in or around Zhongwei. The further I get from Western influence--the more Chinese my China gets--the better I feel. Like I am getting closer ... Read more >
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 | By bobandcie | Views [752] | Comments [1]
Ladies' & Gents' Why and where the missing link.?.?.? Well it all started when we arrived in China Yesterday. Indeed left Kobe (in Japan where there is a Place Montmartre!) on 18 of april on a freight boat with a passenger section. So it ended ... Read more >
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 | By williamwong | Views [754]
At the north-east border of Guangxi Province, there is a rural primary school named Luxiwan amongst the mountains. There are a total of about 220 students and teachers, however they have to spend more than one hour to get their daily water supply ... Read more >
Tags: 5183 outdoor sports club, charity, guangxi, rain, supporting education, typhoon, water, williams walk
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [438]
When I was akid we played a game that might have been calkled, "Hide-In-Plain-View." An object was chosen, and everyone left the room except the person doing the "hiding." The object had to be "hidden" in plain view. ... Read more >
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [601]
I'm giving my second round of midterms this week. Most of my students...wildly impressive. But there, of course, are a few outliers. One student didn't understand the question so he just talked about what was on his mind. I don't take off for ... Read more >
Tags: work
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 | By williamwong | Views [754]
I’m an outdoor sports lover. I started this just after my father passed away. I know in a modern developed city like Shenzhen China, both work and life pressures can result in physical damage to human body. When I’m out amongst the mountains around ... Read more >
Tags: beijing, bupa international, cancer, cancer support, china, great walk to beijing, olivia newton-john, williams walk, world nomads, worldnomads.com
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [295]
Only In China Department: Embassy of the State of Palestine
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [396]
China has affirmative action, and just as in the US, it causes resentments. Minorities will be accepted to universities with lower grades than Han Chinese, for example. The resentment carries over into other areas. "Year after year we pour money ... Read more >
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [330]
The first selection in the fish section of the menu is "Crap." Is it crab? Carp? Crappie? I order the eggplant.
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 | By bodiekern | Views [417]
Compared to Beijing, Xi'an is a bicycle-free zone. And bike repairmen don't sprout like mushrooms every morning. Nor are there newspaper stands at every corner. It is greener in Mid-April, cleaner, and much more pleasant to walk. Better in every way, ... Read more >
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