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Wed, 30 Apr 2014 | By davidschilperoort | Views [192] | Scholarship Entry
It was my first time in China, my second night in Beijing and about 3AM when I realised that I was in the hands of the Gods. In late 2011 myself and 4 of my friends arrived in the International Terminal of the Beijing airport. We were staying at a very ... Read more >
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Tue, 29 Apr 2014 | By daviebb | Views [218] | Scholarship Entry
Much like the movie, I was an American in Asia and spent many of my encounters early on in my four months there, lost in translation. I was very naive in thinking that I would be able to speak English on a daily basis in Beijing but my perception of the ... Read more >
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Tue, 29 Apr 2014 | By mzthangyyc | Views [201] | Scholarship Entry
The smell of stinky tofu. It is one thing to see it sitting in jars with indecipherable Chinese writing-the cloudy lumps in sanitized jars are contained, safe. On humid streets I am confronted with what I believe to be the most noxious smell, only comparable ... Read more >
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Mon, 28 Apr 2014 | By korric | Views [956] | Comments [4]
When I first arrived at Kunyu Shan, there were a few students that really impressed me with some of the feats they did. They seemed to push themselves and do things that were physically very challenging just for the intrinsic challenge of doing so. I ... Read more >
Tags: china, goals, martial arts
Mon, 28 Apr 2014 | By allywillems | Views [305] | Scholarship Entry
The first time I stepped onto the Shanghai Metro platform at Jiangsu Road station on my first day of volunteer work, I was surprised at how organised, efficient, quiet and ‘un-like London’ it was. In a city with a population of over 23.9 million people, ... Read more >
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Sat, 26 Apr 2014 | By haanism | Views [444] | Scholarship Entry
It was a day to proceed to LiTang from DaoCheng. I was told that there was no bus service, only private shared van. “You can hitchhike, but try to get a guy together.” It’d be a 3-hour journey. I decided to hitchhike, even though I was alone. Anyway, ... Read more >
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Fri, 25 Apr 2014 | By beth-nathan | Views [320] | Scholarship Entry
It was proving to be extraordinarily difficult to navigate our way to anywhere near Tibet. We were in South West China and all the borders into Sichuan, the province that straddles Tibet, were closed to foreigners. Sichuan is in the Tibetan Autonomous ... Read more >
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Fri, 25 Apr 2014 | By lighthead | Views [291] | Scholarship Entry
“Whatever you do, don't fall sick in China,” my host, a childhood friend warned. I woke up in a small room with white walls. I was lying on one of the two beds in the room. On the other side of the room, an elderly Chinese woman lay on the other bed.... Read more >
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Thu, 24 Apr 2014 | By mattking | Views [176] | Scholarship Entry
In many ways, Shanhaiguan will always be the end of the line of my Chinese adventure: the city in Heibe province of northern China was my last stop on a three-month solo journey through China. It was also where you will find the eastern most section of ... Read more >
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Thu, 24 Apr 2014 | By danip | Views [224] | Scholarship Entry
One of the trips that were very memorable for me was in January, 2009. I was living in Xi’an China at that time and my friends was English Teachers for an English Course Company. It was Chinese New Year holiday, and the 10 of us decided to go on a 4 day ... Read more >
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Wed, 23 Apr 2014 | By planetpath | Views [191] | Scholarship Entry
There were no knives and forks around the dining hall. I looked around and saw people eating with chopsticks. That was what I was also supposed to do. But I had never used chopsticks before. I slowly moved towards the stock and picked up two green chopsticks.... Read more >
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Tue, 22 Apr 2014 | By seamlesssole | Views [240] | Scholarship Entry
I am part of a family of multiple cultures. I am from the Philippines. I am married to a full-blooded Italian, who is an American citizen. We have two kids - fraternal twins named Nicholas and Antoinette - who are Filipinos and Americans by citizenship, ... Read more >
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Tue, 22 Apr 2014 | By segun | Views [170] | Scholarship Entry
As the captain of the airline announced their arrival to Beijing, he propped himself up in his chair as he prepared to have an experience of a lifetime. Here he was about to enter into the country, whose skills in martial arts and cultural matters had ... Read more >
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Sun, 20 Apr 2014 | By korric | Views [1475] | Comments [2]
I took a fifteen-hour train ride to meet up with the lovely Nicole for a week-long vacation together in Beijing. While exploring Beijing we ate snakes, scorpions, and starfish. The scorpions were surprisingly delicious, but the starfish was certainly ... Read more >
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Sun, 20 Apr 2014 | By qckiwi | Views [2335] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry
I had never crashed a funeral before. Despite my respectful distance and the welcoming waves from invited guests, I still felt uneasy -though perhaps that had more to do with the macabre spectacle that I was witnessing. In the valley below, the funeral ... Read more >
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