Helen’s Travel Corner

Before the Olympics started, Olympic volunteers were newsworthy, especially ones learning to write “I love China” in traditional calligraphy.  While going through my rigorous training leading up to the Olympics at the basketball Cube, my opportunistic supervisor jumped on the chance to get her two trainees on tv and in front of who knows how [...]

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Hello world again!  I know it’s been since August 20 since I last posted anything but going through the China firewall was making it too hard to post anything.  Now that I’m back in the USA, I’ll start filling in the gaps of what happened in Beijing since I last wrote.  I survived the Olympics, [...]

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Hi Cheating on this post and just cutting and pasting what I sent my family and friends in an email.  The letter does a nice job to get everyone updated, so here it is: Dear Family and Friends, Just last night I was talking with a friend on what to pack for China…toilet paper apparently [...]

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