Thoughts on China

Well, as you can see, I had a very busy and productive day! I met a lot of nice people, had Peking Duck (picture below), etc. I’ll put these into different headlines below, so you don’t have to read the parts you aren’t interested in… Cell phone problems resolved Well, I found out my cell [...]

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Cell Phone problem explained…(I hope)…First of all, I finally got an email from the Pandaphone/Pandasim company that mentioned the dates of the service (which I specified) of October 8 – November 11. Well, because of hundreds of dollars of savings, I changed the plane flight to here to October 3 and didn’t think to change [...]

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Yesterday, I went to the Forbidden City (故宫, or Gùgōng). I’ve uploaded some pictures here. You may be wondering about the title of the post. Well, I had read all about the various hustlers that operate around Tiananmen Square, including ones that pose as students that want to learn English, then try to get you [...]

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Well, I really enjoyed my first day here. Because this is a Golden Week (when everyone in China is off work and going to tourist spots), I decided to spend a couple of days going to non-tourist areas. I walked approximately 10 miles today. The first journey was to Xidan, a shopping area that is [...]

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OK, I’m an idiot. I lost my cell phone on one of the connecting flights. I’ll get another one tomorrow, and I still have the sim chip, but that was a costly mistake for nothing. I’m in the Lotus Hostel now and the Internet connection works great. It’s after one in the morning now, so [...]

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Well, I promised a post this weekend with links to web sites in English that introduce Chinese culture. I’ve been so busy doing last minute shopping, packing and, I confess, watching American college football (i.e., not soccer), that I haven’t written this post yet. What I will do is to create another page called “Links”, [...]

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