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Archive for June, 2010

Thu
17
Jun '10

Trip to the Chinese Hospital

I had heard some horror stories of Chinese hospitals. Unsanitary dirty conditions… Lines that stretch out the door… Refusal of service without medical insurance… Crazy procedures… Suffice to say… I knew that a Chinese hospital was one place you did NOT want to go. But nothing that I had heard prepared me for… my experience… [...]

Thu
3
Jun '10

Being Different in China

In China people can be extremely judgmental about people who are different. In big cities like Beijing and Shanghai it’s not much of an issue, but in almost all the rest of China being different can have pretty bad consequences. People who stand out for some reason, maybe they dye their hair funky colors or [...]