 | Day #11: Happy Birthday to me :)
2004-06-01, Shangdong, China. By: tamtam31 | | For my morning breakfast, I decided all I wanted was coffee. But I also wanted to sleep in. The answer: coffee to go. The only problem was the lack of to-go cups. The answer: an empty water bottle... |
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 | Samba and a shower
2004-06-10, Sichuan province, PRC, China. By: teamchina | | Day 3, deep in the boonies of western sichuan province... yesterday we woke on cue with the roosters in the chinese farmhouse on top of the mountain overlooking a deep river gorge... In the morning, ... |
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 | just a brief addition!
2004-06-07, dunhuang, China. By: frodo24 | | hi again,
i know i said the trip was long..but i didn't specify-it was 11 hours driving to get there, and 13 hours driving coming back. very much worth the epic length, but it became quite tiresom... |
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| resting in dunhuang ...
2004-06-06, dunhuang, China. By: frodo24 | | Hey all!
Well, we have returned safely from the epic drive to Turpan and back. the whole trip was long and long...and did i mention long? quite surreal, an amazing and eerie landscape. turpan was act... |
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| Another day, another drip shower
2004-06-06, Beijing, China. By: teamchina | | They must deprive the first floor showers of water pressure because we don't have to suffer 4 flights of stairs. The hotel doesn't have an elevator, so maybe this evens things out. We also only get ... |
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| update 1
2004-06-04, Beijing, China. By: teamchina | | Ni hao from the PRC!! ...here's an update from Zhongguo (china in Chinese)
After 19 hours in planes, plus a few hours each in the San Francisco and Tokyo airports, we arrived to Beijing!! Though un... |
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 | Day #10
2004-05-31, Shangdong, China. By: tamtam31 | | Our train arrived in Shangdong around 7:30 in the morning. The town was basically directly south of Beijing although I¡¦m not sure of the distance away. The hotel we got was awesome, very new and cl... |
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 | Day #9
2004-05-30, Beijing, China. By: tamtam31 | | I'm not sure why this is such a pet peeve to me but for some reason it pisses me off beyond belief. Everyday when the maids come in while we're gone to change the towels and sheets, they'll replace o... |
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 | Day #8: We all smell
2004-05-29, On the way home from BFE, China. By: tamtam31 | | No one on our trip has showered in three days. We all are gross, sweaty, smelly, and uncomfortable, but I think somehow it¡¯s been a bonding experience. With EVERYONE smelly it makes it easier to ma... |
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 | Day #7
2004-05-28, Inner Mongolia, China. By: tamtam31 | | P.S. from Friday's milk alcohol incident: turns out that this alcohol can also be called ¡§horse-ass cheese/milk¡¨ by those who take its making literally. These Mongolians have gotten a newfound res... |
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 | Day #6: DAHMN MONGOWRIANS!
2004-05-27, Inner Mongolia, China. By: tamtam31 | | Anyone my age who doesn't understand that title needs to slap themselves and then tune into comedy central wednesday nights at 10 to be properly educated.
We had a field trip to Inner Mongolia toda... |
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 | Day #5...to market, to market
2004-05-26, Beijing, China. By: tamtam31 | | Our meeting today was at the US embassy in a nicer area of Beijing. We had to go through tons of security to get in, and they even confiscated all our cameras. The man we met with was from the State... |
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| Our free day!
2004-06-02, Beijing, China. By: teamchina | | Today we got the day off. Our "tour guide," Zaida, fit 6 of us in his KIA and drove us to Beijing. We first visited Tienamean Square, and saw Mao's HUGE mausoleum. In the square, some asian boy coerc... |
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| in a stunning part of the world...
2004-06-02, Dunhuang, China. By: frodo24 | | Hi all, well this is my second attempt at writing this next update ¨C I just lost a two hour effort! How stupid and frustrating. I won¡¯t tell you how I lost it all, was pretty mindless of me! Anyway,... |
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| One week
2004-05-30, Beijing, China. By: teamchina | | This morning Tammy, Ashley, and I got starbucks (no vinegar noodles or onion "pancakes" for breakfast). We are now at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, just finishing up a full day of lectur... |
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 | Day #4...Beijing Opera
2004-05-25, Beijing, China. By: tamtam31 | | Today we had to cram in two meetings in the morning because we had plans in the afternoon to sightsee. So, for four hours in two back-to-back lectures we learned about desertification and conservatio... |
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 | Day #3...Monday. lectures start
2004-05-24, Beijing, China. By: tamtam31 | | We had our first lectures today, both of which were very long and somewhat boring. We had two, one in the morning and another in the afternoon, which meant we wouldn't have time to shop or walk aroun... |
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 | Day 2- Great Wall
2004-05-23, Great Wall, China. By: tamtam31 | | Today was our ¡°free¡± day, one where we didn't have a lecture or assignment or anything to do with our project, and it was one of the only ones we'd have our whole trip. Wanting to throw us into Chi... |
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| currently in the hottest city in china...
2004-05-25, Wuhan, China. By: frodo24 | | hey all!
well we made it from seoul to beijing. had a very short stay there, but was very nice. i had my own hotel room with a bed big enough for 4 people - twas super. beijing is currently preparing... |
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 | Weekend with the Students VI
2004-01-05, Lingan, China. By: thunder | | Weekend with the Students #6
January 5, 2004
Having already thrown a picnic with my students and retreating to my apartment after the rain ruined our parade, I was reluctant to organize a... |
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 | Illin'
2004-02-15, Xi'an, China. By: ffej | | I've been sick now for about 10 days. What started as a cold and a stuffy head has exploded into full-on sinusitis. Hopefully you DON'T know what that is, but basically it means that my entire head ... |
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 | Seeing Red
2004-02-12, Luoyang, China. By: ffej | | Red is the color of China. It's their imperial color, their communist color, and their favorite decorative color. I see it everyday. But for another reason.
I hate this place. There, I said it.... |
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| Confucius Said...
2004-02-09, Qufu, China. By: ffej | | Confucius said...
Confucius' ideas focus on two points: the "li" and the "jen." The Li is concerned with proper conduct and etiquette within society, while the Jen deals with benevelovence and ki... |
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| It's Grrrr-eat!
2004-02-07, Great Wall, China. By: ffej | | The Great Wall is, in a word, great. I saw only a scant section of a few kilometers but it¡¯s mind-boggling to think that this thing continues 5,000 kilometers across China. An amazing feat of engin... |
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 | Olympic-Sized City
2004-02-03, Beijing, China. By: ffej | | The more I travel, the more I run into a quirky drawback of it all - it becomes harder and harder for something to impress me. It seems that there's always something that's been bigger, older, in bet... |
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