I had the most incredible day today (and its still going on!). It started at 6:30 am, when I woke up because I had to meet at Zhongshan Park (the park right down the street from our apartments) at 7am to do a project for my Communicative Chinese class. I learned that I've been missing SO MUCH by not waking up early every day while I'm in China. By 7am, the park was PACKED with "old people" (laoren) who do their exercises early every morning. According to the principle of yin and yang and the laws of fengshui, the early morning is the best time to exercise. At that time it is believed that the weaker spiritual energy, the yin, of the night is turning into the stronger spiritual energy, the yang, of the morning, and
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