Archive for December, 2008
Friday, December 26th, 2008
All I want for Christmas UPDATE
Thank you so much to everyone who responded to my earlier post about my Christmas wishes. I’m really grateful for the support I received, and it gives me hope that we can all build a better future. Hopefully, it will touch more people’s lives — my piece was published on Christmas Eve in the San [...]
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Beijing Christmas
As Western things have continued to grow in popularity and prestige, Chinese elite have increasingly adopted our fashions, mannerisms, buzz words and yes, even our holidays. While the Christmas blitz starts later in Beijing than in the US, it’s definitely here, albeit a little bit altered.
You can buy traditional looking plastic Christmas trees in Beijing [...]
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
BLAST OFF!
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
THREE…
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
Anything but a lump of coal…
Dear friends and family,
While many of the pictures we have seen in the media portray a booming China, the truth is that most people, even in the cities, are desperately poor. In many ways, I think that China today is something like the West as it was going through the Industrial Revolution, except that China [...]
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Let it snow!
Today it snowed for the first time this season! It was really light snow, like if you made light fog or mist into snowflakes, but it was really pretty nonetheless. Nothing stuck to the ground, but my coat had little white sparkles all over it by the time I got to school this morning. I’m [...]
