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Mon, 29 Oct 2012 | By emacinat | Views [17181]

Daen finally arrived on Friday afternoon, October 19 th , exhausted but happy to be in China. I was greatly relieved and happy to see him. He had his own adventures getting there, including having to travel all the way across Seoul, Korea, ... Read more >
Tags: banpo village, shaanxi historical museum, terracotta warriors, xian
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 | By cici | Views [3665] | Comments [1]
*Every single bad experience has either happened to me or a close friend. Not a single one is made up. How
many people can you think of who traveled to "find themselves?" There
is this expectation that when you travel you feel ... Read more >
Tags: backpacking, bad experience, china, india, lhasa, on the road, the philippines, tibetan, trekking
Sun, 2 Oct 2011 | By ollo | Views [1300]

In China lebt es sich billig, ist man versucht zu sagen, und
um davon einen Begriff zu geben, hier der Umrechnungskurs des Renminbi oder
Yuan: Für einen Euro gibt’s aktuell etwa 8.50, für einen Schweizer Franken 7
Yuan (umgekehrt kosten 10 ... Read more >
Sun, 8 Sep 2013 | By korric | Views [993] | Comments [2]

This week I added the optional Tai Chi and Qigong classes. These add another 2 hours to my daily training, but they aren't as physically demanding as the rest of the training. Mentally, however, the exercises in Tai Chi can be difficult for me to coordinate ... Read more >
Tags: china, goals, martial arts
Sat, 14 Sep 2013 | By korric | Views [955] | Comments [5]

I've established graduating goals towards the temple run. At a certain point during the run, the concrete road up the hill becomes cobblestones. The cobblestones have 11 breaks in them for a total of 12 cobblestone sections, and the road then becomes ... Read more >
Tags: china, martial arts
Sun, 23 Mar 2014 | By korric | Views [914] | Comments [2]

Power Training on week 29: Me: It could be worse, guys. I can think of at least one thing worse than doing this. Other students: What's that? Me: ... Me: ... Me: ... Me: Sorry, I was wrong. There isn't anything. Qu Sifu has left Kunyu Shan to open another ... Read more >
Tags: china, martial arts
Mon, 3 Mar 2008 | By avant-garde_chauvintist | Views [610]
I've been accused of being an over-planner. I kept a planner from high school throughout university. I wrote EVERYTHING in it. It was almost like a journal. I kept all of my planners and am able to look by and see exactly when I went somewhere or ... Read more >
Tags: Work
Fri, 26 Aug 2011 | By joshuapatterson23 | Views [591] | Comments [4]
I rememeber before I left eveyone was asking me all kinds of questions and I told them not to worry I was an old hand as this China travel stuff. Things would be different this time everything had changed, I knew exactly what I was doing. Well everything ... Read more >
Sat, 6 Sep 2014 | By daveonhols | Views [351]
Vast, grand, cavernous. Our train pulled into Shanghai's Hongqiao station. Newly built, but next to the old airport, Hongqiao is typical of the probably dozens of new, huge, railway stations being built across the country. China's central ... Read more >
Tags: shanghai china food train
Sat, 21 Jan 2017 | By ljkennedy | Views [320]

After a 15 hour flight, I thought I would have a coffee. Was delighted to see a Starbucks. I decided to follow the advice of a young woman who sat near me on the plane and experience some local coffee. She purchased a "white coffee" for me from a shop ... Read more >
Thu, 4 Jan 2007 | By di_swierc | Photo Gallery
Holidays
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Thu, 26 Feb 2009 | By glimmerwing | Photo Gallery
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Sat, 23 May 2009 | By kimberlyanne | Photo Gallery
China
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Sun, 17 Oct 2010 | By unsettled | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
About these photos:
They were taken in a small village Liede on the Dragon Boat Festival of 2008. Liede has a history longer than 1000 years and preserves many Cantonese traditions. At that time, it had been half demolished by the government of Guangzhou ...
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Tags: #2010wnphoto, travel photography scholarship 2010
Tue, 4 Feb 2014 | By cd10_10 | Photo Gallery
Our trip to the Harbin Ice & Snow Festival during Chinese New Year
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