China Tomorrow

I’m going to China tomorrow. I can’t believe fall quarter is finally here.  I’m trying to get pumped for learning, but my little Vietnam vacation kind of threw me back into summer mode.  It’s my last night in Vietnam and I’m staying in a lovely hotel in Hanoi, the capital.  I’m about to go out [...]

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We Live In Beijing!

Well now this is interesting.  A facebook ad actually came up with something useful to show me (for once.) I’m posting it here so I won’t forget to look at it later: www.weliveinbeijing.com.

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Ground Control to Major Tom

I’ve realized that the amount I write is inversely proportional to how exciting my life is.  I haven’t been keeping up with this blog lately because my life’s been a fast-paced confusing whirlwind for the past few weeks.  My… er…. gentleman caller is back in college in Worcester, so I’ve been trying to balance seeing [...]

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Excitement and Fear (Mostly Fear)

Last fall I was going through my Word documents when I found something that looked like part journal entry part life commentary.  It was about when I first arrived in Beijing last summer. 
It began: “When I first arrived in Beijing I felt this sense of dread driving down the freeway to Beijing University’s campus. As [...]

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Saving Fish from Drowning

The gnarled pine, I would have said, touch it.  That is China.  Horticulturalists from around the world have come to study it.  Yet no one has ever been able to explain why it grows like a corkscrew, just as no one can adequately explain China.  But like that tree, there it is, old, resilient, and [...]

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奥运会

So far the Beijing Olympics have been going pretty well for China, except for the part where an American was killed in a random act of violence.
On Friday afternoon I went to the UMass Memorial travel clinic with my mom, which was… interesting. Since I was just in China last year, I didn’t need to [...]

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