Claire: 'This room smells like incest'. Lizzie: 'Incest, or inscence?!'
August 8th 2011 Today was the first day of our official tour of China. We were told to meet at 11am (which seemed late to us) in the front of the hostel ready for our day out. This was the first time we properly met the group, there are 15 of us, 3 boys and 12 girls aged between 19 - 24 and everyone seems nice. We also officially met our tour guide, a Chinese lady called Yiang Yiang who will be with us for our ti
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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 
