Dorm

I made it!

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June 22nd 2006
After 20 hours of travel, I was finally able to go to bed in my new room! The journey was actually quite pleasant, aside from having to sit in an airplane for hours😊 I started in Toledo Tuesday afternoon, took a quick flight to Detroit, and then on to Tokyo (that was a 13 hour flight). From Tokyo it was another four hours in the air to Beijing. Once in Beijing I met my roommate, who happ ... 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