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A map. I have to find a map. This is the first order of business to attend to whenever I arrive in a new location. I like to get my bearings as soon as possible, and the best way to do this is to purchase a map. It’s my new hobby to collect maps of the [...]
Class begins. “Beijing’s Inner City wall has 9 gates, the Outer City wall has seven, and the Imperial City wall has four. There are 5 major altars, eight temples, and one gigantic bell tower in the center. This is the general outline of Beijing.” Old Beijing often tells me this little tidbit of information, testing to see whether or not [...]
The hairs in my nostrils are frozen and hard. Once again I’m on my way to the diabolo groundsW. It’s a Friday, so I don’t have to work in the afternoon. When I took my job with the travel service that I work with I asked my boss if I could have Friday afternoons off in [...]
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