In Chinese, the Great Wall of China is chang cheng (长城), which means “long wall.” It is indeed long and built along the highest ridges of the hills, and we visited the Mutianyu section on Saturday.
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Jenny and Amanda arrived in Beijing yesterday and their jet-lagged selves are zonked out on the living room floor right now. It’s been a longer-than-usual absence, but here are finally some pictures from Guilin.
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Sixteen years ago, there were three: Fast forward a few years (and another sibling), to three years ago:
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Anna to Chinese woman: “So, what does dog taste like? Is it similar to chicken?” Chinese woman: “It tastes like cat.” More pictures to come…
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Each year we, the foreign teachers, have a huge Easter egg hunt. We got all the eggs ready on Wednesday for hiding some time next week. There are several thousand of them, and each contains a slip of paper saying, “Return this egg to the foreign teacher’s office and you could win 100 yuan!” (100 [...]
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