Yay, picnic

My Med Students

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April 6th 2006
As I wasn’t planning on spending 12 weeks sitting in Xi’an teaching small children the correct way to pronounce the colours, I asked the kind people in charge of this volunteer program if I could possibly change my placement to something more fulfilling. The Monday morning after I got back from my mini-trip to Shanghai and Beijing, I ended up at the Fourth Military Hospital University, sitting ... read more

Asia » China » Shaanxi » Xi'an

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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