China, we have arrived!
December 16th 2011 We have arrived in China! After an 8-hour layover in Detroit (during which I learned how to say "Do you speak English?" in Mandarin), followed by a 13-hour flight, we are now in Beijing! Our flight took us up over Canada, Hudson Bay, the Northwest Passage, the Artic Ocean, Russia, Mongolia and finally into China.
A friend-of-a-friend of Liang's family picked us up at the airport. He spoke n
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