Panda Research Institute! And many more adventures... January 15th 2011 Today (well, officially yesterday...) us USAC students went to the Panda Research Institute, where I got to see pandas in real life! It was quite a life-changing experience, because not many people can say they've been to the actual research and development center. Here, research teams from around the world breed pandas, care for baby pandas, and develop new methodologies pertaining to sucessful p ... read more
Asia » China » Sichuan » Chengdu 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
Graduated in 2011, in anthropology, Japanese and Chinese at Kansas State University. I also somewhat study Tibetan. I have a keen interest in Korean, Thai and Yucatec Maya language, dont ask why. :))
I'm constantly in awe of where these small hands have taken me, and of where my feet might be swept off to. And how such powerful everlasting messages of love and life, instilled in these opportunities, present themselves as an enormous gift to such a small frail and mortal body. I now better understand and appreciate the world's people, through my time as an expat overseas.
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