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Sometimes You Just Don’t China

Spring festival is the biggest holiday in China and a really good chance to dig into and participate in Chinese culture. So what did I do? Got a buttload of KFC and played board games with foreigners all night. Cause sometimes you just don’t China. I mean, I’ve been here

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Finishing my Travels on Possibly The Worst Day–Chinese New Years Hassle

It’s really becoming cliche on this blog for me to bitch and moan about Chinese New Year (aka Spring Festival) but really, I cannot stop myself. I wish I could explain the importance of this holiday but it is so hard for anyone outside the country to understand. (Here’s me

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Lantern Festival: Such a Pretty Name for Such a Loud Day

The Spring Festival holiday officially ends on the 15th day of the lunar new year, with the Lantern Festival. This is a day when you look at beautiful lanterns, answer some riddles written on lanterns and eat a special food called tang yuan. And oh yeah, fireworks. I think y’all

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Spring Festival in Pics or How I Maybe Went a Little Overboard in Preperation

So Spring Festival has come and gone. Though technically not finished (that will be on March 5th with the Lantern Festival) the break is over and classes have started up again. I usually get the hell out of China during this time period because it is such a pain to

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Awwww F*&@k It’s Chinese New Years Again

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: being in China for Chinese New years (more aptly named Spring Festival) is a nightmare. It’s the largest human migration and more than a billion people travel to see their family. Of course they can’t all travel on one day, so

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Winter Holiday

For the past 3 weeks it’s been winter holiday. Time for my yearly conundrum: what to do for spring festival? China during Spring Festival (aka Chinese New Years) is hell. Known as humans largest migration all 1.3 billion Chinese people take trains, planes and automobiles to get back home. All

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I'm Ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-ack!

Hello everyone. It’s been a little more than a month since I was last here. I’m worn out, broke and have a cold, but I still have a wide smile on my face because of all the fun I’ve had this holiday. Shenzhen and Hong Kong I started in Shenzhen,

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Year of the Snake, Bye Bye Dragon!

Happy year of the snake! Today marks the first day of the Chinese New Year, the biggest and craziest holiday in China. I’m spending time in my best friends small village (pics to come) and I’m probably being driven crazy by non-stop fireworks but nothing can keep the smile off

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Bags Packed, Tickets in Hand

It’s winter holiday so that means it’s time to go out and about and explore this huge adopted country of mine. So what’s the plan this year? Well, like always, to me winter means going south. So I’m going to start in Shenzhen to visit my best friend Color for

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Celebrating Chinese New Year in Hong Kong

Here is a confession: I hate Chinese New Year. Back in America I always thought Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival as it is more appropriately called, was pretty cool. A lion dance, some banging gongs and a coupla fireworks. But now I’ve been in China for 3 spring festival

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