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An American in Bangkok: Final day in Thailand!
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An American in Bangkok. Friday, August 15, 2008. Final day in Thailand! The Bioethics Museum at UNESCO Bangkok. Our last day in Thailand was bittersweet, as final days usually are. We began the morning with our last official BIOCEP presentation ever, at the UNESCO Asia-Pacific. A display about cloning, with models of Dolly. Scriptive nor wholly pre. Hailing a taxi as we left the UNESCO headquarters,. We caught sight of a bunch of masked police officers. Writing a ticket on a speeding (or illegally-parked?
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An American in Bangkok: AIDS Hospice
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An American in Bangkok. Friday, August 8, 2008. One of several statues at the hospice. Our final academic stop for the week was at an AIDS Hospice located in Lopburi, Thailand, about two hours north of Bangkok, deep in the countryside. The hospice is actually a temple, called Wat Phra Nam Phu, a beautiful sanctuary-like compound home to several hundred people and families living with HIV and/or AIDS. The entrance to Wat Phra Bat Nam Phu. A row of the homes for patients and families. The temple of ashes.
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An American in Bangkok: Golden Jubilee Medical Center
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An American in Bangkok. Monday, August 11, 2008. Golden Jubilee Medical Center. Me with nurse at Golden Jubilee (note the shoes! I totally wore similar ones when I was a candy-striper back in the day). At Bangkok's Golden Jubilee Medical Center, we were treated to a stimulating lecture on Eastern versus Western modalities of medicine, as well as a tour of the hospital's newly-opened integrative and alternative medicine facilities. Cold) and six yang. These treatments first-hand when we toured the new CAM...
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An American in Bangkok: Flight home
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An American in Bangkok. Saturday, August 16, 2008. The island geography of Hong Kong,. As seen through my plane window. Well, as I type this now, we have only about four hours left in the air! 8211; never neglected in dehydrated darkness for hours at a time. Once 6pm EST (5am Bangkok time) rolled around, I began to I feel like I’m getting a second wind that will hopefully last until I get home around midnight tonight. Closing in on Hong Kong - the city from the air. I also had a great time of it in Hong ...
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An American in Beijing: 08.06
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An American in Beijing. After a not-so-difficult final, we all reconvened in the Yi Fu Building for closing ceremonies. A bunch of important people (Feng Laoshi, the head of HBA, the director of the BLCU language program, etc.) and some students (including my friend Xiao Kan and my jiejie. This is a picture of me with Mi Chaoyang (my friend Ned from Yale) and Kai (my friend from Harvard). Ned and I did our skit for the midterm together. he played Bachelor Number One in Beijing Tanlian'ai de Bisai. After ...
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An American in Bangkok: Closing thoughts: Two lists
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An American in Bangkok. Saturday, August 16, 2008. Closing thoughts: Two lists. Woman selling fruit at Ampawa floating market. Things I will definitely miss about Thailand. All the wonderful people I met here. The smell of incense at streetside shrines. Thailand’s lavish use of purple and gold in decorating. Yummy Thai dishes, especially green curry, som tom, and mango sticky rice. The delicious (and cheap! Being greeted with cute bows and ‘ sawa-dee-ka. 8217; or ‘ sawa-dee-khrap. 8217; all the time.
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An American in Beijing: 06.07
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An American in Beijing. New Summer, New Travels, New Blog! Another year brings new travel plans in Asia - now, I'm headed for Taiwan to spend six weeks at a university in Taichung. I'll be blogging my adventures over at www.kelly-in-taiwan.blogspot.com. Posted by Kelly @ 6:53 上午. The rambling thoughts of a first-time traveler abroad. Washington, DC, United States. New Summer, New Travels, New Blog! A short post about weather. HBA Teachers: A Brief Introduction. Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall.
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An American in Taichung: May 2007
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An American in Taichung. Tuesday, May 22, 2007. As most of you know, I'm currently wrapping up my last year of college (! And will be graduating in about two and a half weeks. I'm posting now because I just finished my last (Harvard) exam and last (Harvard) paper ever! The parentheticals are there for my mom's benefit, who cut into my ebullient claims to have written my last paper ever. And will return home by the eighth of August. Classes begin on July fourth and end in early August. We'll be st...Hong ...
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An American in Beijing: 06.06
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An American in Beijing. This is a shout-out to Jess Hoy. Because I love her! And not because she asked me to, or anything. Nope, nope. :) To all my blockmates, family members, friends at home, etc.: I miss you all! Anyway, today was another fun day. I aced my ting xie. Dictation) this morning (10 out of 10 baby! And had Tai Chi and Chinese Calligraphy class this afternoon. I also got interviewed on Chinese TV (in English though. hope the teachers don't see it! Then I settled down for some fun with. An ex...
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An American in Bangkok: Weekend Market
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An American in Bangkok. Saturday, August 9, 2008. Saturday in the park with friends. From left to right:. Janice, Pao, me,. Risa, Jen, (Pao's girlfriend) Ju. The weekend market in Bangkok, colloquially known as “JJ Market” for reasons I've forgotten (having something to do with the actual name in Thai sounding something like "jay-jay," maybe? Is one of the best places to find fun snacks and great bargains on everything from clothes to silks to indigenous plants. Flowers for sale at the weekend market.