Morning Exercises

School

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February 27th 2006
School I’ve been at school for three weeks now. I get up at six to be at school by seven. I’m one of the lucky ones though, my host father drives my host sister and I to school each morning. Everyone else in my group has to get up even earlier and ride their bicycles. School starts at 7:20am. For the first ten minuets something mellow happens, I don’t really understand what it is and it i ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more