Becca and Me after walking in a typhoon

Some Typhoon... NOT

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September 1st 2010
We missed our first day of classes because of a typhoon that was going to hit Shanghai. This typhoon was a complete let down. It was just a bad rain storm but it all happened yesterday evening, so we would have been long done with school. I dont know what a hurricane would do to Shanghai if they freaked out so bad over a typhoon (a fancy name for a lot of rain). Yesterday at school it was certainl ... 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