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Kung Fu in China Week One: Initial Impressions

Fri, 23 Aug 2013 | By korric | Views [3802] | Comments [19]

My room at the Kunyu school is extremely spartan. Despite my tendency towards minimalism, this place makes me feel that I've been living in luxury until today. It's small, dirty, hot, and isolated. The accommodations were much nicer when I lived in Army ... Read more >

Tags: china, martial arts

Kids say the Cutest Things

Wed, 4 Jul 2007 | By aemaus | Views [1436]

Kids say the Cutest Things….. 7-4-07 So it isn’t everyday that you get the chance to hear a baby’s first words. This is kind of the situation I have here in China. The children say new English words everyday ... Read more >

Tags: Work

The Sky Burial

Thu, 15 May 2014 | By | Views [1396] | Scholarship Entry

The vultures arrive at the burial site at the same moment as the convoy of four-wheel drives. They approach from the east, the cars from the west, and the enormous birds take their places in silent vigil on the high crags of the mountainside. The vultures ... Read more >

Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip

I'd like Tibet you've been waiting for this

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 | By noflyzone | Views [1331]

5,250m away from sea level and still we're craning our necks to look at mountains another 3,000m up. Welcome to the roof of the world. We'd had tantalising glimpses of the high himalaya ever since arriving in Kathmandu valley, but the vistas on offer ... Read more >

Sydney and getting to Seoul

Thu, 16 May 2013 | By annacarlson | Views [847] | Comments [2]

On Monday May 13th, i woke up in Alice Springs and made my way to the airport to fly to Sydney to get to see Ally! It was about 6:30 pm-ish when i landed. Ally came and picked me up at the metro station outside her house. I met the family who shes staying ... Read more >

Tags: australia, china eastern airlines, delays, flying, quantas, shanghai, singapore, sydney

Give me Guanxi!

Thu, 7 Jun 2012 | By hanadignan | Views [836]

On Sunday I received my brand spanking new passport, so pretty and clean and new. It came with instructions as to transferring my current Chinese working Visa, and also a sticker to put on my old passport. I did this, and lopped off the corner in the ... Read more >

Adventures in Canton

Tue, 4 Sep 2007 | By torie | Views [613] | Comments [1]

Ok everytime I say that I am only going to write a quick one this turns into a bloody great novel but I think that my plane is boarding soon so I have to type really really fast. Yesterday i went to China for what turned out to be a 14hr trip including ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

In die Berge zum Lake Karakul

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 | By lukas_patricia | Views [492]

Unser Bus holt uns um 9 Uhr ab und wir fahren von Kashgar nach Westen, der pakistanischen Grenze zu, wo wir noch mehreren malerischen Stops in 3600m Höhe am Lake Karakul ankommen. Der Gebiet ist umrahmt von 7500m hohen Gipfeln und zählt zu den Ausläufern ... Read more >

Traveling to Beijing

Sun, 12 Mar 2017 | By dinagosse | Views [470]

We left North Bend yesterday (!) for our 20-day tour of China. Got a shuttle bus direct to the airport from just near our house. Runs only every three hours, so we got to the airport very early for our flight. We were able to grab a generally ... Read more >

Day 4: Teaching Begins

Wed, 8 Apr 2015 | By chinaho | Views [415]

Still waking up at 2AM. Still raining. Still noodles for breakfast with pickled vegetable, sautéed greens and fruit, with packaged cakes. Walking in the rain, and hiding under cover of the Hotel buliding to give the staff time to clean our room.... Read more >

Tags: adjusting, dot assignment, teaching

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 | By snippets | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

Two years ago, with the exception of a family holiday to America almost twenty years prior, I had never had the opportunity to see anything of the world. Then something changed, my outlook became different, I opened my eyes and seen how many options ... Read more >
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Tags: Travel Photography Scholarship 2012