Hong Kong Airport Ready for the Olympics

08.08.08 Airport

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August 9th 2008
This is my first blog from my year long excursion to China. As a forewarning, my grammar is likely to suck…I am a math major after all. I rarely write anything anymore. Hopefully this new habit of blog writing and teaching English/Language Arts at school will lead to my own grammar improvement. I am currently sitting in the Hong Kong airport, which has free internet. It is 6am and my connecting ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Chongqing

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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