Tossing the rice to remove the husks.

October - visitors, autumn days and dogs for sale.

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October 24th 2005
Jerry and I have had a very busy month. Lessons are going very well and my students have accepted that I will be using the text book for all my lessons and have stopped grumbling about it. It is hard work though as I have a lot of subject matter to get through each lesson. It is made more difficult because I can’t explain meanings of words to them in Chinese. Anyway we are halfway through the te ... 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