View from my apartment on the first day

Speaking of Homes...

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October 18th 2015
Hey everyone! So the news for the week is that on Saturday I moved into my homestay! While I've known that I would be moving into the homestay for the past two weeks or so, it wasn't until lunch on Thursday that we were given any information about our families. By the way, only four of us moved into homestays, as it is a part of the language intensive program to live in homestays for half of th ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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