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Driving is different here

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

I’m often asked what kind of things are different between Canada and China to which my first response is always the same: the driving. It’s not so much of a critisim as it is simply is a very clear difference between two countries. My rule of thumb for safe travelling to any country you are [...]

Shanghai redux

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

As class was finishing up, Ryan and I started talking about how much we wanted to travel again. On my last trip to Shanghai I made a few friends, but didn’t see as many sights as I would have liked. Ryan asked me why I didn’t just go; after all, we study and prepare enough [...]