The 15 Ways of Violent Death, Sanlitun, Pure Girl Bar, the Hutong, the Pearl Market and the (Not So) Forbidden City July 3rd 2006 So, now I've been to Beijing twice, and I can picture myself living there. It ranks right up there with Buenos Aires. We took a bus from Tianjin on Saturday afternoon, which cost about US $4 and took about two hours. We checked into our hostel (the Red Lantern Hostel), and made our way over to the Sanlitun foreign bar district for dinner. We ate at the Hidden Tree (the salad and pizza were an amaz ... read more
Asia » China » Beijing 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
Hi All,
I'm changing my intro. a little bit again. If you're reading this and you don't know me, I am a student at Arizona State (studying Sociology, Political Science, Gender Studies, and Spanish) who had a little must-get-out moment and decided the best way to do that would be to do study abroad for a year. But in four different places. SO.... Finished my studies abroad in Chile and China, and more than halfway through in Singapore. I'm basically done towards the end of November, then I go to Northern Vietnam and Laos for a week, the Philippines for a week, Tokyo for several days, Senegal... full info