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So we knew not to go to Blue’s for dinner on Christmas Eve. That left us with something of a quandary: should we go to the Holiday Inn (the only other game in town for Western food) and pay extortionate prices for a set meal? Or should we do nothing?
And then [...]
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holidays (part 2)
holidays (part 1)
We were all really looking forward to Thanksgiving. Blue’s Western Restaurant was advertising* an “authentic home-style Thanksgiving dinner,” and the prospect of turkey, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce – oh, god, cranberry sauce! – was just too tempting to resist.
So we all met up – Adam, Ben, Blake, Daniel, Natasha, and I – at Blue’s [...]
for international friendship
I think it was Mark Salzman who coined the term “language rapist.”
Anyway, that’s exactly the right phrase; it happens all the time here. I will be eating dinner or looking through CDs in a store or walking down the street when suddenly someone comes up and informs me that he very likes to practice his [...]
national day (part 2)
It was a nice, clean, modern sleeper bus – two tiers of bunks ran in three rows along the length of it. There were lights, so that you could read, and curtains, so that you could sleep, and a bathroom at the back. Every few bunks, there were little flatscreen TVs. Unlike on trains, the [...]
national day (part 1)
Let me start off by saying that I like Harbin a lot: it’s a nice, laid-back city, full of usually-friendly people* who communicate in a crystal-clear accent. It’s completely unlike any other place in China that I know of.
There’s no real history in Harbin. Before the end of the nineteenth century, it didn’t even exist [...]