Sue overlooking the Songhua River

It took me a while and a bit of gesticulating to convince an old man to take my photo. I think he thought I wanted a photo of him ( I did) but he was very self-conscious about his terrible teeth! Then he was a bit worried as I don't think he'd ever used a camera before. He grinned like a Cheshire cat when I showed him the photo, thanked him profusely and told him he'd done a good job. It's times like this I wished I had a better handle on the language.

#90 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College- Ice and Snow in Haerbin- Around Town

May 2nd 2008
Have you ever been somewhere sooooo cold that your eyelashes temporarily froze together? This was one of the more unusual experiences I had on a visit to Haerbin/Harbin in the North East of China this past January! Part of the joy of travelling is in setting personal challenges in order to stretch your boundaries of comfort. This is how, I, as a woman from the sub-tropics of Queensland, Austral ... read more

Asia » China » Heilongjiang » Harbin

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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