Tree hugging

Travelling

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June 21st 2017
Unfortunately my last day in Chengdu with my homestay family wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. I expected to actually go out and do something, but that wasn’t the case at all. Zhong Xin Yue and her mother slept for a good couple of hours and just hung around the apartment, so I was sitting on my bed staring out the window most of the time. I was a little frustrated, thinking I could be seei ... 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