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Being an ocean away as proven to have its disadvantages. Hearing about the death of you grandma through email is my reality (thank you sara for keeping me informed). It's as if I could delete the email and she would be alive again, maybe just enough for enough time that I could say goodbye. I'm not very sentimental when it comes to death and when its so far away it is very easy to push the reality of a situation to the back of one's mind. I just wish I could be there to help.....to stand next to my mom as [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 27th 2006 | 239 Views | [diary=84635]


I guess that leaving your home in search of another one deserves at least some sort of explanation as to what the hell i am doing. After 3 years plus 2 months in Chicago, I guess I was at a point where I had enough (in a good way). I don't know if I am here by accident, I was really looking for something to do for a summer when I realized that I was applying too late and the only programs I had a chance of getting accepted for where at least year long programs. I guess the thought of [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 27th 2006 | 249 Views | [diary=84633]

Temple hopping
Shopping in China

By amandainshenzhen
August 22nd 2006
Bye-Bye Beijing Asia
After some 21 days, my time in Beijing has come to an end. As I sit in my new Shenzhen apartment (let's call it what it really is, my new dorm room). It's hard to believe that I have been gone from america for 3 weeks, learned some chinese, taught for 2 weeks, taken a 32 two hour train ride, and made some amazing friends. All that said, I pretty tired and since arriving in Shenzhen two days ago, I have gone through a rollcoaster of emotions. Partly, because I have been forturnate to have been blessed with a bout of [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 23rd 2006 | 258 Views | [diary=83631]

some of the most beautiful, smart and daring women I know
Me and Mao
My first and last rickshaw ride



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