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Traveling with Mom
... ride above the mountains on the windiest day. She was such a trooper! She fully embraced the food and culture.
The following weekend, we took her on another long distance bus ride to Guangzhou. We became champions of power shopping on Beijing Street, jade market, tea market, and fabric market. We also gave her a fill of temples. We explored some of the local parks and monuments. Of course, we had to take her on the night cruise down the Pearl River.
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How Does the Tradition of Wearing White Wedding Dr
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Coke and Dim Sum
... restaurant with 3 other friends and we had all-you-can-eat dim sum. Only catch was, you had to finish EVERYTHING you ordered, otherwise you'd have to pay extra. I ate so much for lunch I only had an egg and some seaweed for dinner. I think I literally got 5 pounds heavier from lunch...but it was delicious and so totally worth ...
Xiamen tour
We went on a last minute trip that the school arranged and paid for. It was a tour that included the bus, tour guide, hotel and food. The only problem was that the tour guide did not speak very much English, so we followed people around and relied on some younger people to translate a little Chinese for us. It was a lot of fun! We went to many places we did not see the last time we visited Xiamen. ...
Trouble in Xiamen - part two
... sink in, I received a call from the consulate at 4:30pm to advise me that the passport was now ready to be picked up before the office closed at five. In Catherine’s car we sped back to the consulate a few blocks away and I made it into the office before closing time with a passport that would guarantee my existence from that time onwards.
Having a friend of a friend as support was a godsend at a time when my own country’s consulate was not willing to help ...


