Home sweet home
I had been working in a classroom on the second floor for almost two months and happened to look out the window one day and realized a person could look right into our apartment from this vantage point. The three windows on the lower floor to the left of the outside door are our office, dining room and kitchen (the one with the half drawn blind). You may not be able to tell that the buildings have no eavestroughs so in the heavy rainstorms we have had recently you can probably guess where the heaviest run off is... Yup, right over the outside door.
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 
