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June 4th 2009 Asia » China » Shanghai » Xujiahui
For a colorful introduction to this entry, I had to pay 150 yuan today for new bedding for the hotel! I fell asleep with my highlighter and it made a nice pink spot. They tried to charge me right away ... 21 photos [full story]
For a colorful introduction to this entry, I had to pay 150 yuan today for new bedding for the hotel! I fell asleep with my highlighter and it made a nice pink spot. They tried to charge me right away ... 21 photos [full story]
June 26th 2009 Asia » China » Shanghai » Xujiahui
If the title confuses you, we've already published a "Zai Jian Shanghai part 1" that didn't seem to get through...so feel free to check it out, and comment please on our homage to our visitors. As ... 9 photos [full story]
If the title confuses you, we've already published a "Zai Jian Shanghai part 1" that didn't seem to get through...so feel free to check it out, and comment please on our homage to our visitors. As ... 9 photos [full story]
June 19th 2009 Asia » China » Shanghai » Xujiahui
Hi all, This blog is about one big Yin (look for part 2 shortly on the yins AND the yangs of two years in Asia) as we’ve devoted this entire penultimate blog to an homage and revisiting, if y ... 9 photos [full story]
Hi all, This blog is about one big Yin (look for part 2 shortly on the yins AND the yangs of two years in Asia) as we’ve devoted this entire penultimate blog to an homage and revisiting, if y ... 9 photos [full story]
June 3rd 2009 Asia » China » Shanghai » Xujiahui
Finally found some time to hit up the Caster Studio again. I practiced some powermove transitions and freezes - only had 50 minutes there. While I was there, I saw another bboy in the larger room and ... [full story]
Finally found some time to hit up the Caster Studio again. I practiced some powermove transitions and freezes - only had 50 minutes there. While I was there, I saw another bboy in the larger room and ... [full story]
June 2nd 2009 Asia » China » Shanghai » Xujiahui
Ted showed me this tiny hole-in-the-wall restaurant yesterday with some amazing "Xiao Long Bao" - soup and meat stuffed thin dough balls! They're handmade and the cooked in bamboo baskets in this larg ... [full story]
Ted showed me this tiny hole-in-the-wall restaurant yesterday with some amazing "Xiao Long Bao" - soup and meat stuffed thin dough balls! They're handmade and the cooked in bamboo baskets in this larg ... [full story]
May 21st 2009 Asia » China » Shanghai » Xujiahui
This past week has been very busy with class and orientations. I also had my first Chinese cooking class where we made a very spicy beef tofu dish. It was delicious but the first cooking class was c ... 12 photos [full story]
This past week has been very busy with class and orientations. I also had my first Chinese cooking class where we made a very spicy beef tofu dish. It was delicious but the first cooking class was c ... 12 photos [full story]
May 26th 2009 Asia » China » Shanghai » Xujiahui
It's Tuesday and Dragon Boat Festival is on Thursday! See (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_boat_festival). And as a part of the SSP program we get the amazing opportunity to share the festival wit ... 9 photos [full story]
It's Tuesday and Dragon Boat Festival is on Thursday! See (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_boat_festival). And as a part of the SSP program we get the amazing opportunity to share the festival wit ... 9 photos [full story]
May 23rd 2009 Asia » China » Shanghai » Xujiahui
After the tour, I met up with two friends from Georgia Tech, Christine L. and Jonathan H. Actually, it was the first time Jonathan and I met, but we quickly got acquainted. We ate at the bottom of a B ... 4 photos [full story]
After the tour, I met up with two friends from Georgia Tech, Christine L. and Jonathan H. Actually, it was the first time Jonathan and I met, but we quickly got acquainted. We ate at the bottom of a B ... 4 photos [full story]
May 23rd 2009 Asia » China » Shanghai » Xujiahui
Apart from one student in the program waking up in a random apartment in Pudong with two French girls who were just glad he was alive and not in a coma and who helped him pay for a taxi back to SJTU a ... 25 photos [full story]
Apart from one student in the program waking up in a random apartment in Pudong with two French girls who were just glad he was alive and not in a coma and who helped him pay for a taxi back to SJTU a ... 25 photos [full story]
May 18th 2009 Asia » China » Shanghai » Xujiahui
It wasn't hard to find my first class, Differential Equations at 8am, just missed it by one floor, ha. Professor Geronimo, one of the four horseman of the mathematical classes at Tech, is teach ... 2 photos [full story]
It wasn't hard to find my first class, Differential Equations at 8am, just missed it by one floor, ha. Professor Geronimo, one of the four horseman of the mathematical classes at Tech, is teach ... 2 photos [full story]
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