This wasn’t my first trip to China. When I was 19, I went on a gap year project in Malaysia, and from there I decided I had to visit China. To some extent, this is another story. It happened in only a week before starting uni, was my first experience of independent travel, and involved a lot of drama! (more…)
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- Technorati test 2 – the comeback (hopefully) 14 February 2009Come on Technorati – pick up my blog! Oh alright I’ll try it by including a Trackback, even though it should all be done automatically. Hope you get this. Kind regards, The writerchina1sthand
- Technorati test! 14 February 2009Come on Technorati – pick up my blog! I think it’s personal…china1sthand
- China: Inside and Out 4 February 2008To mark the start of the Chinese New Year, and the run up to the Beijing Olympics, I am relaunching this blog! I will include posts for my whole trip, and I am renaming it, “China: Inside and Out”. Please come and visit me at: chinainside.wordpress.comchina1sthand
- Overview 4 March 2006Week 1: Adapting Week 2: Settling Week 3: Obvious Differences Week 4: Social Norms Week 5: Me Again This blog is about half way through. I will publish the rest when I next have time. This includes all the tourist stuff! I will still be responding to comments so feel free to contribute. I hope you are enjoying China First [...]china1sthand
- Food, Glorious Food! 3 March 2006 china1sthand
- Tune In 2 March 2006Chinese people love karaoke. Today my friend got off work early so we went to do Chinese karaoke. I loved it! Another thing we should have here! And I have to tell you – I’ve always been more a rock chic, despising all pop fans. …But Chinese pop songs are pretty good! In China there is [...]china1sthand
- Learning To Talk 1 March 2006 china1sthand
- War and Beauty 28 February 2006 china1sthand
- Location, Location, Location! 27 February 2006 china1sthand
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