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Arrival and Quarantine

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May 17th 2009
I arrived in China on Saturday night after a long day of travel. On Friday May 15, I flew from Newark airport to Shanghai. We departed New York at around 11:40pm and arrived in Shanghai at 1:30pm. When we landed in Hefei, some doctors boarded the plane to check us for swine flew. They used a laser gun to get our temperature and wore hazmat suits. It was so bizzare. We then took a high speed ... 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