Chinese people celebrated the Mid-Autumn Day festival Tuesday, September 25th by enjoying moon cake and time with family. I spent the day preparing for my first day of class and walking around Jiujiang city center.
The Chinese follow two calendars – the twelve month Julian calendar and the lunar calendar. According to the lunar calendar yesterday [...]
Day four of an annoying cold is coming to a close. Yesterday I gave in and went to the university clinic just to make sure it was a cold and nothing more serious. While the experience was interesting, I don’t know that it yielded an accurate diagnosis. A student volunteer went with to translate but [...]
The weather turns nice, the skies are blue, and so is my mood. Tuesday I began feeling a slight tickle at the back of my throat. It was just enough to worry me and today the soreness in the throat is gone and replaced with a subtle chest cold or bad allergy. I’m not sure [...]
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