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Huang Hua Great Wall

28 May 2009 | Comment
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My friend, Liu Yi, asks me to join him to go to a section of the Great Wall that I’ve never been to before called Huang Hua Great Wall.   We drive there in a car that he rented on the previous day.  Besides myself and Liu Yi, the other two people who join us are [...]

The Second Coming

4 April 2009 | 1 comment
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“Why do you want to go to Baoding?  There’s nothing to see there.” Exactly.  That’s exactly what I want to hear.  This is the type of remark that draws me to a place when I want to travel somewhere for a day trip or a weekend and escape Beijing’s hustle and bustle.  There’s nothing there…I find [...]

Orphans and Old Men

28 March 2009 | 6 comments
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This article is another look back on my two years spent in JiangxiW Province where I taught English at a small university in Yichun CityW. The first time I visited the orphanage in Yichun City, the thing that struck me the most was not the fact that almost all of the orphans were girls.  Nor was [...]