Christmas lunch

Orphans Christmas Day lunch

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December 27th 2008
One of our Oz teachers started life as a chef so volunteered to cook us our Christmas Day lunch. 17 of us sat down to a feast of vegetable soup, roast lamb, beef, chicken and roast vegetables, cauliflower cheese and green veges, with desert being two kinds of cakes as well as jelly and trifle. All cooked in one tiny little oven and two microwaves and one hot plate. Lots of wine, snacks, sec ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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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