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Lisa L Chen

From the U.S. to China and back to the U.S.

It has been approximately three months since I left for Beijing, and about one month since I have come back. The few months of...
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Until Next Time…

It’s hard to believe just how quickly these past eight weeks have passed by. When we first arrived, we were bright-eyed bushy-tailed as we...
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

One thing that I have since learned during my five month stay in Beijing is just how temperamental the weather is. The scorching morning...
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Crawling Up The Great Wall

These past couple of weeks in China have been a whirlwind of new experiences. Before I had even fully adjusted to the time change,...
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First peek at Peking!

When I was younger, my mother prepared a homemade workbook of Chinese characters for me to learn and copy. In my attempts to avoid...
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