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Monthly Archives: January 2007

Leaving for Beijing

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Thanks for visiting.
欢迎关林来！I will be leaving for Beijing on thursday (Jan 11, 2007) for several days. After that, I will be travelling to India for two months.
Back in China on Feb 27th!

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Does this have meat?

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

I wrote a while back about my first few weeks here, where I mangled up telling people I was a vegetarianI am a vegetable, but although I’ve learned how to say that, most of the time I just ask if something has meat in it.
It’s a very simple sentence, and yet, most of the [...]

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Qiqihar at last!

Friday, January 5, 2007

Ever since I met a visiting English teacher from China in my adult education classes, I’ve wanted to go visit her city, since it is very far north, and way off the beaten path, so to speak.
So, since we had a few days off around new years, I took the opportunity to travel up there.
After [...]

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Studying for finals is a great motivator for wasting time

Friday, January 5, 2007

Since I’m supposed to be studying for finals, I’ve found lot’s of interesting ways to “divert myself”, important things like making sure all my socks are folded and neatly stacked…
Here’s one, a fun game. Take a bit of time to load (it’s flash based)
Read all about it (including secrets) here: http://samorost2.blogspot.com/
Play game at http://www.samorost.net/samorost2/http://www.samorost.net/samorost2/
game award [...]

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Ice sculptures in Haerbin

Thursday, January 4, 2007

To continue my trip report (start here : Qiqihar at Last)
I wore my long underwear when I went up to Haerbin, and I was still cold!. Since I go there about 8:00 pm, it had been dark for a while, and the temp was probably down around -22 or -24 (C) The next morning, I [...]

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