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Hip Hip Hurray

I had a choice. Two of them as a matter of fact. I could sit around lazily with the sunshine streaming in the windows, or I could go out and enjoy it. I was leaning towards the former. It had been such a long week. And all I wanted was to curl up for hours [...]

A week ago I went with some friends to a local research base. This province is where the amazingly lazy, docile giant panda bear is from. I know this because I wrestled one. A really big one. Apparently people from all over the world come to do this. The guy before me wasn’t so fortunate, [...]

Call me picky and I

I could write pages and pages about our two week excursion, but for now I’ll focus on some of our time with Lei and I’ll keep it as short and sweet as possible:-) We boarded the train with our friend “Lei” and after a surprisingly short 38 hours we arrived in Lei’s home town. We [...]

In high school John* was my arch nemesis. He was cooler than me. Funnier than me. And more athletic too. But that wasn’t the problem. It was the girl. It’s always the girl. She was his friend first. But then I became popular – sort of. See, I was so horrible at basketball that people [...]

When I think of an Asian college student; I see a young man, 5 feet and some change, glasses, carrying books, and racking his brain for the next question he wants to ask me in English. These observations accumulate just from my short time being here, but I think they are pretty accurate. The usual [...]

Okay, let me give you a little picture of our first destination; 40- something hours away by train. It was Leia

Today I was out and about by five thirty. That’s early. And I realized two good reasons to be in the city at that hour. The streets are clear! And I