In the Bus Going to the Hotel in Kunming

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June 5th 2010
6/5 - 6/7 你好from China! I was nervous leading up to this trip because I would be across the world without my family. The night before I left I had two nightmares, one involving monsters and the other involving my family. I knew it was from anxiety about being separated from my family, but it still put a dark overcast on the following morning. My parents and I woke up at 4:45am, and after so ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan » Kunming

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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