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10 December 2009 | Beijing, China, Jiangxi, Yichun Lin Miaoke is my idol. With pigtails hanging down from her cute little 9 year old head, she wowed the world during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics as she flawlessly performed on stage during a version of “Ode to the Motherland.” It was a perfect, clean-cut lip-synching debut. It didn’t matter that the voice that the world [...]
Morning “I stayed up all night praying. Didn’t sleep at all,” Paul says to me when we meet in the hotel lobby in the morning. He seems wide awake and full of energy. “You prayed all night?” I ask him. “All night,” he says. “And you know what…” he pauses, “a miracle happened…My friend asked me to pray [...]
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 [...]
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