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Some interesting findings

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September 6th 2009
I found out that the huge lily pad things in the pond outside my window are edible. Apparently people eat the roots and according to my friend Will they are kind of gross. In the picture with the number 49 in it on my previous blog you can see some people picking them. Will lives with a host family because he's in immersion chinese and his family made him some of that for dinner one day. What he's ... 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