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Summer Camp - Day 4
So 2 teachers were brought in to teach at the summer camp this year. One of the teachers, Mike, taught at EF for 2 years about 2 years ago so he was familiar with how things work and he's currently an anthropology professor at a university in Yunnan province. The second teacher, Luke,......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-05 02:29:44 | Rating:

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Shenzhen to Beijing
Well, after an incident at the Louhu train station in Shenzhen, I finally boarded a train for Beijing on Sunday, the 10th at 2:45pm. The train arrived at Beijing West a little after 2pm the following day. So the total time on the train was about 23 hours. I know what you're......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-13 03:53:31 | Rating:

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Beijing - Day 1 - 8/11
So I'm considering my arrival day in Beijing as my first day since it was in the afternoon. I arrived at the train station and immediately got in a taxi to go to the hostel I'm staying. Unfortunately, the taxi driver had no idea where it was located (even though it was pretty......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-13 04:06:03 | Rating:

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Beijing - Day 2 - 8/12
Tuesday morning, Michelle and I decided that after breakfast, we'd go back to the Bird's Nest and see if we could buy some tickets. This time we got around a little better because of our trial and error the previous night. On our way to the stadium, we met a lady selling......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-13 04:28:14 | Rating:

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Beijing Pictures
Since it takes waaaaay too long to upload pictures to this site and I'm in Beijing for just a couple days, I've decided I'd post a couple pictures of the big things as I go so you can at least see what I'm talking about in my blogs. Also, I'll update blogs the next day, each day. So......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-13 06:19:15 | Rating:

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Day 3 - 8/13
Now that I'm writing this a couple days later, I'll try to remember as much as I can. Beijing has so much to see and do and even more so since the olympics are here now too. I started today off by taking the subway to the southern part of the inner city to begin a tour of the......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-15 21:41:20 | Rating:

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Day 4 - 8/14
Today my day began at 6am. I woke up, got ready and made some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for my day on the Great Wall. We didn't end up leaving the hostel until about 7am on a little bus that, luckily, was air conditioned. After a 2.5 hour drive where we nearly died at......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-15 21:56:55 | Rating:

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Day 5 - 8.15
Today began late because my body was so tired from the Great Wall the previous day and of course not going bed until 3am. After breakfast I hopped on the subway and went to the end of line 10 to catch a quick taxi ride to the Summer Palace. Wow. That place is incredibly......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-15 22:09:10 | Rating:

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Day 6 - 8/16
I began today a little earlier than normal because I was on my to visit Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, which I've heard takes a while. I began today like every other day in Beijing. A quick breakfast followed by a walk to the subway station. Today's subway ride......Read More

Posted on: 2008-08-16 21:53:38 | Rating:

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Day 7 - 8/17
Today was a great, relaxing day, which was much needed. I woke up kind of early just to make sure I got to see Phelps win his 8th gold. Luckily I did get to see it with bunch of other people from the hostel so that was fun. I'm still pretty amazed he was able to win 8, that's......Read More