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It's fun to just walkf through the markets. Many people are as interested in us as we are in them and their market. Many people say "hello" as we walk though and this may be the extent of their English. But they are very happy to see us. Especially if we buy something. One chap laboriously pantomined "15" on his hand to tell us what we owed. "Shi wo" said Dianne (we are pretty good at numbers). He was so pleased that we knew the amount. He beamed as he told us some great story in Chinese. Our Chinese isn't good enough to know what he said but we were all both happy.

Random musings in retirement

September 21st 2009
One of the great pleasures of our second year is running into students from last year that are now in Grade 10. They seem genuinely happy to see us and they seem to find it amusing that I am staying home to cook, clean and whatever. We were out for a walk one evening and ran into one of my students returning from Majiatan with the telltale white plastic grocery bag. “I hope that isn’t full of ... 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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