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Surviving the Beijing Smog

7 December 2009
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Everything you’ve heard about Beijing’s horrible air is true. After I arrived, it took ten days before I saw blue sky.
Ten days.
On a typical day you can stare directly at the sun because there’s so much smog in the air.
When I lick my lips while outside (a favorite pastime in the cold, dry weather), they [...]

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Toughguy™ Nettle Warrior 2010

13 November 2009

Details on what I’ll be doing.
I’m planning to run the race to raise funds for charity in honor of my brother, Roice, who would have absolutely loved to run something as crazy as the Toughguy. Once I have the logistics on all that worked out, I’ll publish details.

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Hangeul and Hanzi

24 October 2009

In addition to my graduate coursework, I’m taking intensive Mandarin classes. The classes are excellent, and there’s been a noticeable improvement in my Chinese.
My class focuses on spoken Chinese, so I’ve been working on my own learning characters. Learning characters is nasty and not always very much fun. It makes me miss the Korean language’s [...]

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US Qualifies For The World Cup!

13 October 2009
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