Nice party, shame about the electricity!

Christmas but not as you know it...

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January 2nd 2010
It has really been a slowing down time towards the end of the semester since our last entry. We had our Chinese lesson as usual and our teacher's mother vey kindly invited to have lunch. So we enjoyed a couple of bowls of the local noodles - homemade! Later in the week we , our national volunteers and some other Chinese teachers visited a local middle school to offer further help, advice and gu ... read more

Asia » China » Gansu » Qingyang » Xifeng

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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