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Mural on the school wall. This is Li Feng. Chairman Mao said he was a model comrade, one of the great 5 who were so loyal to the cause that they would put out a forest fire at the cost of their own lives. We should all try to be a bit more like Li Feng!
Surviving the Winter freeze

January 5th 2011
Greetings once again, It's getting mightily cold here...and by cold I don't mean chilly. If you take chilly and go two steps below to cold, then go three rungs below that to really pigging cold, two more down to bloody freezing then go another three steps below that you'd be somewhere in the right vicinity. I'm walking around my my lips smeared in vaseline all day and we live in thermal vests ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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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