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		<title>From Zhengzhou to Hangzhou</title>
		<description><![CDATA[China is a big place, as I am sure you know. It is hard to explain and the contrasts between major cities to someone who has never been to China. I guess the easiest way to explain it is, even though Lester and I never throw our garbage on the street, our son Alemayehu somehow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love Bug</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hope you can watch this fun animation that Alemayehu found on Tudou.com. http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/e81G6Dx-PzY/ Tudou is the Chinese YouTube. Don&#8217;t let the Chinese characters scare you off. They don&#8217;t care about copyrights. We just watched Toy Story 4. Try a search for the movie or T.V. series you prefer and you just might get lucky. Anyway [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://china.interconnex.org/2010/07/24/718/</link>
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		<title>Another Year Another Halloween</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are tons more foreign teachers at Shengda this year, and for Halloween that means tons more fun! Check out the Red Devil, the Red Barren and the US Soldier in Red China killed by the Arabian Knight&#8230; and OH! The infamous David Bowie. Can you guess what Alemayehu and I were dressed as? I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://china.interconnex.org/2009/11/09/another-year-another-halloween/</link>
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		<title>New York to Guyana Then Back Home to China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was so wonderful seeing everyone over the summer. Our trip to New York was a triumph as we looked back, and took a moment to reminisce on the way we used to live not so long ago. Strutting around the streets of New York without Lester, but with an active toddler, made me stronger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alemayehu&#8217;s First Birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chances are if you are reading my blog you came to see the baby. I know he is the star of the show. I&#8217;m not jealous. Really I&#8217;m not. Besides you are in  luck. We just celebrated his first birthday. His party was a great success. We have made friends with some of the teachers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://china.interconnex.org/2009/03/31/alemayehus-first-birthday/</link>
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		<title>Broken Foot but Soaring Spirit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 21st 2009 most of the Shengda foreign teachers went on a historic trip to see the Yellow River, including my husband Lester Paul, who had broken his foot during the inter-department basketball tournament at Shengda only two days earlier. For three consecutive years the teachers have enjoyed the hospitality of the 22 Municipal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://china.interconnex.org/2009/03/31/broken-foot-but-soaring-spirit/</link>
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		<title>Two More Amazing Families</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our last trip before the start of the semester proved all over agian that the Chinese are a gracious and generous people. We visited one of Lester&#8217;s students Glory. He introduced us to his girlfriend&#8217;s mother and father, and thier hospitality truly exceeded anything we have experienced. They cooked us an amazing dinner, which started [...]]]></description>
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