So, as I sit here eating instant noodles, I wonder how I can possibly fill you in on all the crazy events of the past three weeks....I guess there really is no way to satisfactorily say everything. For more details you will just have to ask me. So to sum up the first week: -Beijing was smoggy to the point that I considered buying a gas mask to filter it out...I didn't so my lugs probably have caught up to the pack-a-day-for-ten-years smokers. We saw sky (blue at that) for the first time our third day there and the fourth day was positively sunny. -We flew to Xi'an and discovered that we had just caught up to all the smog that had left Beijing. Our three days there were relatively gloomy. It rained on a us
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