A happy greeting!

Watching the rice grow!

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June 14th 2005
It's been a month since my last entry. Life has been relatively quiet. The weather has become unbearingly hot and we don't really want to walk around the fields during the day any more. Our last walk was a couple of weekends ago when we caught a bus to the next village and then walked back for a couple of hours until we felt too hot and tired. We then waited beside the road for another bus ... 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