January 6, 2012
To talk about common days in China is to talk about something new and different. Every day you can discover new things. For the Chinese people these things may be ordinary and just part of their daily routines. In this post I share some images I took here in China in 2011. Click on a ...
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December 23, 2011
Even though I’m far away in a country that knows little about Christmas, I cannot forget the meaning of these days. This time because of my limited time, I only share a video with a song from Hilary Weeks. Someone put this song with some images from the new videos of the Church about Christmas. ...
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October 20, 2011
From a distant land in a moment of light contrasting festivities and celebrations with solicitude and peace, we have the following image. The West Lake in Hangzhou during an autumn night. Enjoy it! If you wish to receive a weekly notification of new entries in this blog, please enter your email in the field next ...
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October 8, 2011
China keeps surprising me in many ways. This time I went to Shanghai. There are many things that I would like to share, but in this entry I only post a picture because of time. Please remember, I don’t have Facebook access even if you happen to find this blog post also posted on my ...
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September 24, 2011
This time I would like to share with you my experience visiting a Buddhist temple in Qingdao, China. There were several people, but I didn’t see any Westerner. I also believe I was the only one with a camera (except for the ones built-in in cellphones), thus I first hesitated to take pictures. I didn’t ...
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September 16, 2011
I take a brief pause from my experiences in China to share some pictures of Mexico, and in this way join the celebrations throughout the country. These are just some pictures I took this year (except for one). They are not necessarily the best ones, and they don’t represent all of Mexico either. It is ...
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September 15, 2011
The May Fourth Square with its May Wind sculpture in front of the beach in Qingdao is a major highlight in the city. The square is located between building complexes east and west, at the north is the city office and at the south the ocean. Click on any image to enlarge. The ...
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September 14, 2011
About 125 miles (200 km) from Changle, the small county I live in, there is coastal city called Qingdao, which has become one of my top places in the world to live in for longer periods. Qingdao has some German influence in her architecture due to previous occupation (I’ll share pictures of it in the next ...
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September 8, 2011
I want to remind everyone that I don’t have access to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other social media and websites. If you can see this post on my Facebook wall is because I am doing it through a third party application that I installed in WordPress, but this is only for blog posts. For those ...
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September 8, 2011
The day I arrived to Changle, my room wasn’t ready yet, so I was taken to a nice hotel. Once there I was invited for dinner. Good! authentic Chinese food finally. The group was formed by my boss, always referred as “the headmaster”, Eunice, who is the headmaster’ assistant and English interpreter, and Mr. Jong, ...
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