Last lunch

Before heading back to school, we had our last lunch at a former re-education centre. Mostly delicious but the nicest thing I heard said about the duck eggs (from the Canadian staff) was that they could be an acquired taste. The Chinese folks with us seemed to think they were delicious.

Panjin, our first Chinese road trip

October 12th 2008
This rather belated entry in the blog describes our first foray into the Chinese countryside away from the school. The entry was delayed partly because I have had more than a few problems since my PC packed it in, the most recent being trouble moving files around on a PC running Vista. Sigh… The Chinese wife of one of the teachers runs a travel agency, massage centre and computer repair shop ( ... read more

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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

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