January 2009
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Morning Calisthenics on the Bund
More specifically, 5:30 in the morning! (And if we’re being really honest…I hadn’t even gone to bed yet. This was on the way home.)
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Tibetan Monastery in Inner Mongolia
The complex was huge, this was just the main part of it. The air was also much more crisp and clean up here in the mountains. Inside that building there were actual monks chanting, you could donate money for ‘inclusion’ in the chants- You wrote your name (or whatever) in a ledger and then the head monk would take it somewhere. It was extremely dark inside, with only candles on the...
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Edge of the Tengger Desert
Facing where the desert started and the Yellow River in the distance. Behind me was just sand as far as the eye could see.
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The future of this blog
Since I’ve returned home, I obviously do not have anything current to blog about anymore. However, there was a great gap between posts and have decided instead to turn this space into a “Picture of the Day” feature, with pictures I took in 2008. [This is also because I miss living in China greatly and am trying to relive it all this way. Ha.] So to start off, this is the city of...
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New Year's and reflections upon leaving Dalian
So after my last post, I had a couple days of free time to start packing. Which I did a minimal amount of before Sigma came to visit from Taiyuan. I finally had a chance to repay her hospitality when I’d visited in April; she’d also learned from my experience not to take the bus, but just to fly instead.
She arrived on the 30th, and we went to the Post Office to ship off about half of...