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We started this tradition of a Thanksgiving Adventure Trip to Yangshuo. This is our 5th Thanksgiving in Yangshuo. We didn’t go last year and everyone missed the adventure. Five families are sharing the Thanksgiving adventure. It is the usual gang of past Thanksgivings to include the Jenkins (Jennifer, Scott, Sean & Sophie) and the […]
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Emersyn’s passport expires in December 2014. Our China residence permit is due February 2014. Since passports are only good for 6 months prior to the expiration, Emersyn would get half a year visa. It is much easier to get a full year visa, therefore, another run to the American consultant for a new passport. […]
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For the study of the Great Depression, the 8th grade students live a week on 90rmb ($15). On Sunday, we went to the store to find Emersyn food for the week. The students had to purchase the food at a store that would give a receipt, therefore, we couldn’t buy at the wet market. […]
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The Melbourne Cup is Australia’s major thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as “the race that stops a nation”, it is a 3, 200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. Conducted by the Victoria Racing Club on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria, on the first Tuesday in November. In Shanghai, it is a luncheon […]
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Friends with young children organized a trick or treat. Everyone brought bags of candy to be given to the children. Since the buildings are secured, the candy givers were waiting in the lobbies. Eleri had so much fun with her jelly fish costume on Halloween that she decided to be a jelly […] |