Kids from Hong Kong

Wearing uniforms looking like a band, although we never got it straight what kind of group they were, just that they had come to "share their Olympic experience." They ran up to us and asked if they could take pictures of us posing with them in various combinations, and they let us do the same. I think they were on a scavenger hunt, and were required to produce a picture of their group with one non-Asian of any kind.

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March 25th 2008
Yesterday spent all day at the Summer Palace--sort of like Golden Gate Park with a bigger lake, if Golden Gate Park were privately owned as someone's summer home. It's many attractions include the Long Corridor, a wooden walkway with (we are told) over 14,000 paintings, and the longest continuously painted walkway in the world. It certainly is the longest continuously painted wooden walkway Lynn ... read more

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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

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