So many pieces

Making tea is an elaborate procedure in CHina. One doesn't just pour hot water into the tea pot and let the tea sit. That would be uncivilized and make bitter tea! Cups and tea leaves are rinsed with boiling water first, then leaves strained and that tea discarded. Real tea is then made with new boiling water. Mmmm results are fabulous. I'm hooked!

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October 9th 2011
It's Sunday morning, October 9th and it has been such a busy week. All day last Wednesday was our excursion to the Hakka houses and then we were teaching Thursday and Friday. Yesterday, Saturday, I went to the gym and Joyce and I went and had mani/pedis at a local salon, get this, for a little under, cha-ching, $16.00! Wow, I could get used to that every week. Our internet connection has ... 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

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