The "Great Wall" of Southwest China---The Golden Dragon Wall, and the ancient town of Luodai. January 22nd 2011 Today, we USAC students took a bus trip to the ancient town of Luodai, which is about an hour away from Chengdu. And on the way, I (for the first time) got to see some of China's rural areas! I'm definately planning on visiting some remote villages when I go to Guilin (southern China) during the New Year break. Most of the houses were very old, and surrounded by beautiful wet red dirt, vegetables ... read more
Asia » China » Sichuan 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
Graduated in 2011, in anthropology, Japanese and Chinese at Kansas State University. I also somewhat study Tibetan. I have a keen interest in Korean, Thai and Yucatec Maya language, dont ask why. :))
I'm constantly in awe of where these small hands have taken me, and of where my feet might be swept off to. And how such powerful everlasting messages of love and life, instilled in these opportunities, present themselves as an enormous gift to such a small frail and mortal body. I now better understand and appreciate the world's people, through my time as an expat overseas.
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