The road to Xiahe

I was woken up early on Tuesday morning by the morning call to prayer. Lanzhou is predominantly a Muslim city, and the skyline is dotted with minarets. I wasn’t aware how loud the call to prayer was in such a city, and as it woke me out of a sound sleep at like 6am I [...]

Posted at 7:43 pm on August 2, 2010 | leave a comment | Filed Under: western china trip | read on

Lanzhou Lamien

So here I am, in Xiahe. It’s pretty great. But before I was in Xiahe I was in Lanzhou, which is not as great. Getting to Shanghai was a bit more of an ordeal than I had originally anticipated. I was told my numerous friends in Hangzhou that they had never had any issue just [...]

Posted at 7:00 pm on August 2, 2010 | 1 comment | Filed Under: western china trip | read on

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I live in China, teach English and and am giving a very futile attempt to better my Chinese while here.


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