Travel preparations for this educational trip to China range from basic, e.g., find a really comfortable pair of sandals and buy them, to complex, run tests on cameras and other gear that must be in best working order. I just bought a Berlitz course in Mandarin that is supposed to help you become fluent in 30 days, trouble is I bought it 27 days too late to become fluent for this trip; we leave June 14. Biggest innovation though is that cotraveler and student Jeannie, has inspired me to blog, an activity I am not familiar with nor drawn to, although I have kept a private journal for decades. Why am I blogging? Because we are committed to documenting this trip for Eastern's Admissions Department. We want prospective students to easily see how Eastern supports
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