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Adventures in Seoul

June 25th, 2010

Yeah, I’ve been back in Xi’an for two weeks already and having written about Seoul, so I figured I should get around to that.IMG_1624

 

I never realized how hard it would be to meet up with people without having mobile phones. Upon arriving in Seoul I couldn’t contact anyone unless I found a wifi  hotspot. No phone service and no one to call. Fortunately, my travel buddies and I are rather tech savvy, and carry smartphones around with us, allowing us to email each other or leave messages on Google Voice. That made meeting up in the airport extremely easy.

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A Very “Kuaile” Christmas

December 29th, 2009

圣诞快乐！Merry Christmas!

While the U.S. has been inundated with Christmas decorations, and sales since at least Halloween, if not before, China (at least in Xi’an) has been quite theCredit to www.deluxzilla.com opposite. In fact, most shopping malls, and restaurants didn’t start putting up Christmas decorations until less than one week before the holiday! By about the 23rd of December, when I went downtown, it finally felt like Christmas was near, minus the snow.

Christmas in China, however, is not like the holiday I’m used to. It’s quite a bit different. There’s really no religious aspect to it at all. They’ve stripped it of all religious meaning and left it to simple Christmas trees, Santa Claus, and other agnostic cheer.

“Christmas has never been this important to me before” – Jinfei

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