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Kung Fu in China Week One: Initial Impressions

Fri, 23 Aug 2013 | By korric | Views [3902] | 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

This is one of those 'Don't try this at home' situations.

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 | By bundynbeaches | Views [2328] | Comments [1]

Five guys walk in to a hospital with an empty baijiu (local firewater - 'white wine') bottle and ask for it to be filled with pure alcohol. Back to the beginning; We set off from Chang Shan Hao gold mine at around 8:00 AM in -20 or so weather in ... Read more >

Tags: china, cold, driving, laughs

Duck and Cover

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 | By amcommins | Views [1380]

I love capital cities- they are the principal organs of a country- inputting, digesting and circulating life outwards through countless capillaries of roads, tracks, pipes, cables, lines and rivers. After the monotony of the flight from Heathrow, life ... Read more >

Getting lost in Beijing!!

Sun, 1 Apr 2007 | By katie_rose | Views [1378] | Comments [2]

2 nights in Beijing. The flight from Ho Chi Minh city to Beijing was uneventful. We had a quick stop and equipment change in Hanoi before rebourding the plane to Beijing. By now I am getting used to being the minority, you see other westerners, but ... Read more >

Tags: Lost!

A Year Has Passed in The Land of Chinese

Thu, 2 Jul 2015 | By miss_traveller | Views [1200]

I believe I may have had writer's block. Actually I haven't, but I have been so unbelievably busy in the last year that I have not made time to write. I have been experiencing every nook and cranny of this bizarre, crowded and insane place called China ... Read more >

Mut (Feuertopf)

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 | By ollo | Views [1070] | Comments [1]

Manchmal braucht es Mut in China und je nachdem nicht nur ein Quäntchen, sondern eine tüchtige Portion. So wie vor Monaten, als ich in Shihezi ein Lokal betrat, in dem ganz offensichtlich nur Gruppen versammelt waren, um Tische, mit denen etwas ... Read more >

This is China

Wed, 2 Apr 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [754] | Comments [1]

That's kind of the mantra of expats living in this country. When something seems ridiculous or doesn't go as you expect it, the only reason that ever crosses anyone's mind is "This is China." Friends have actually shortened it to T.I.C.... Read more >

Tags: culture

Day 186: Wet Night Market

Wed, 20 Jul 2016 | By excellentadventure | Views [454]

More rain today, so much so that we stayed in and watched it for most of the day. Finally went out to the night market. The street was flooded with water and we enjoyed a wet stroll in our touristy ponchos. Most of the cool shops were closed and there ... Read more >

Fear And Wonder In The Grasslands

Sun, 24 May 2015 | By | Views [258] | Scholarship Entry

As the Tibetan mastiffs growled their terrifying growl, I clung to my horse. My fingers wound deep into her mane as our hearts pounded together. I closed my eyes fearing the dogs, trained to attack, would leap on us. My horse stood tall and brave, my ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 writing scholarship