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Our Final Farewell to China

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July 30th 2009
Well the time has finally come to say goodbye to Hangzhou, our home for the last 7 months. The girls are ready for home especially since their friends here have been gone since school let out. Kevin has mixed feelings but I am very upset that our stay here is ending. Sure I miss everything about home, but my time here has been so much more than I was expecting. When we arrived I was not confident ... 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