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Where I’ll be going…

Provides a link to a Google map to the places in China where I’ll be going this fall.

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Plans back on track…

Well, it appears that I will be going for six weeks, after all!
我很高兴 (wǒ hěn gāoxìng, or, I’m very happy!)
But now I’m leaving in only 36 days…so much to do, but not really. All I really have to do has been done. I’m not going to put myself on any kind of rigorous schedule when […]

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and plans falling apart…

Well, I can’t go into it, but something happened yesterday that puts my whole trip up in the air. How it comes down, only time will tell. It’s not a bad thing, but what would ordinarily be a great opportunity, seems so unwelcome now. The trip I was looking more forward to than anything I’ve […]

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Plans coming together…sort of…

Well, many things are going according to schedule. I got my Chinese visa through BCV Visa and Passport Expeditors. They handled that process flawlessly.
I also got my airplane tickets. Originally, I had planned to leave Tallahassee on October 6 or 7 to arrive in Beijing on October 8, then return from Shanghai on November 10. […]

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Getting close to starting…

I’ve been busy getting the blog looking good, before I started writing anything serious.
If you haven’t noticed the three little colored buttons above the calendar on the right, give them a try. They change the color of this page, including a different banner up top. I think you may like the blue one, which shows […]

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I’m sure I’ll use this for a few other things, but I have never been much of a diary writer. I am so psyched about going to China this October, though, that I think I’ll overcome my writer’s inertia. I probably should have started this a year ago, when I first thought of taking a […]

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