Pagoda

Home sweet home

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October 5th 2005
There are five foreign teachers here this year, and we all live at the end of a global village of sorts. There is a couple from Topeka (who have promised to give me the recipe for brown bread ice cream) who live across the hall, a couple from New Zealand (Darwin, where, I am told, it is too hot to wear ties to work, so instead it is customary to put on a pair of tall socks) and Nick, a guy from M ... read more

Asia » China

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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