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My Vacation

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October 10th 2011
Last Saturday I left for my first Chinese vacation. It was exhausting but fun. I took and 18 hour train ride to Chengdu from Wuhan which I will never, ever do again. It was sooo painful. From Chengdu we went to Leshan, eima Chan, The we went to dijaiuyan, and from there we went to jiuzhaiugo. We flew back yesterday which was also painful. I climbed (yes that's right) I climbed up and down moun ... 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