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Wed, 26 Mar 2008 | By nomadnorrie | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 25 Mar 2008 | By nomadnorrie | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 25 Mar 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [764] | Comments [1]
The other day the class assignment was to think about ambitions. Then, tell your partner about your ambitions. Then, tell the class your most interesting ambition. "I want to travel the world." "I want to become a business woman."... Read more >
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Mon, 24 Mar 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [626]
I have officially spent more time planning for my classes this semester than I did all last semester. And I'm only three weeks in. I just had lunch with another teacher, Kiri. She's also teaching the culture class, so we're working together to plan ... Read more >
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Mon, 24 Mar 2008 | By gabyber | Views [2075]
Parecia que nuevamente se nos iba a “prohibir” la salida del pais. Esta vez por cuestiones meteorologicas. El temporal que estuvo azotando a China justo en las visperas del ano nuevo chino, y que llevo al gobierno a casi decretar el estado de emergencia ... Read more >
Sun, 23 Mar 2008 | By sarahandphil | Photo Gallery
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Sun, 23 Mar 2008 | By pjscheck | Photo Gallery
These are the floppiest, laziest, cutest freakin' animals on the planet.
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Sun, 23 Mar 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [1028] | Comments [3]
Chinese fashion is a lot to take in. When I first arrived, I saw so many bright purple and gold Dolce and Gabana shirts on men, that I thought either the town had painted itself in my alma maters colors in expectation of my arrival or that Western fashion ... Read more >
Tags: culture, fashion
Sat, 22 Mar 2008 | By sarah_freedom | Views [783] | Comments [1]
14th March - Arrive Beijing airport early morning and managed to get on to a bus going to the area my hostel was in...or so i thought. The joy of China is that very few people speak English and my Chinese is limited to the few phrases in my guide book.... Read more >
Sat, 22 Mar 2008 | By nomadnorrie | Views [4746] | Comments [2]
Jianxi - Wuyuan county
I hopped on a bus from Xijiang (1.5 hours), then another from Leishan (1 hour) then bought an overnight train ticket for that night from Kaili to Yingtan (3 hour wait, 17 hours on the train). At lunchtime I arrived in Yingtan ... Read more >
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 | By pjscheck | Photo Gallery
Notice the sticky notes on everything. Yup, evidence of my attemps to learn Mandarin.
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Fri, 21 Mar 2008 | By pjscheck | Views [457] | Comments [1]
Chinese is not easy. In fact the very idea of it makes my head spin. It’s the tones. And the characters. And the classifiers. And the pronunciation of ‘ü’ and ‘r’ and ‘e’ and the nasal ‘n.’ And those damn tones.
Case in point: today I ran out ... Read more >
Tags: communication
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 | By bodiekern | Photo Gallery
Beijing
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Fri, 21 Mar 2008 | By sarahandphil | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 21 Mar 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [576]
Things are going down here. History is happening. And I'm here to sort of witness it and try to read about it from foreign newspapers on the internet. I don't really know what to say about it. It's crazy. Luckily, nothing much is happening in Beijing.... Read more >
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