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		<title>Sunday morning</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day after the earthquake, everything seems back to normal in Chengdu&#8230; &#160; dumplings seller &#160; fruit stand &#160; Tweet This Post]]></description>
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		<title>earthquake April 20, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 6.6 earthquake struck Sichuan at 8:02 this morning, centered in the Lushan area near Yaan, which is 90 minutes by car from Chengdu. &#160; epicenter &#160; My 15th-floor apartment started shaking just after 8 AM this morning &#8211; the dog panicked when the tremors grew stronger. I was just getting ready to go out, but instead we escaped the apartment and walked all the way down using the stairs. I saw other people crowding into the elevators and thought &#8211; what idiots, that&#8217;s the last place you want to be in an earthquake. People stood around outside, in the streets and on sidewalks, for about an hour, until the fear of strong aftershocks subsided. I watched a TV mounted outside the gate to an apartment complex, to find out where the quake happened; it was initially reported as 7.0. There were no live pictures on the TV news after I got home, so I went to my IELTS job to mark writing exams for a couple of hours. As of now, 56 are confirmed dead, and there&#8217;s extensive damage in the quake zone. You can read more here: http://www.itv.com/news/story/2013-04-20/deadly-earthquake-in-china/#devastation-after-deadly-earthquake-hits-china_192036 &#160; earthquake damage Tweet This Post]]></description>
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		<title>on a clear day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 05:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[shadows from above A recent morning was so clear and beautiful after an overnight rain that it was like waking up in a new city. When I went for an early-morning walk with the dog, the sky was such a deep blue and the air so cool and fresh, I was reminded of Tibet. One forgets that the mountains that rise to the Tibetan plateau begin west of the city. My brain took such a hit of oxygen that I became dizzy and light-headed. I took some photos from my 15th-floor window to celebrate the occasion. Tweet This Post]]></description>
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		<title>moments of clarity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 01:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  蒸饺  zhēng​jiǎo steamed dumplings, Chongqing&#160; The title “moments of clarity” occurred to me a couple of months ago during my winter break, when I did indeed have some clarity, since there wasn’t much else to do except sit and think. Since it’s been a long time between my blog posts, I wish I had some of that clarity now. As I recall, said moments of clarity involved a sense of peace, and in general a clear idea of hat I&#8217;m doing now in my life. In January I rented an apartment in the International Gardens complex, about 5 km from where I lived before at Sichuan University. It’s a compact one-bedroom, perfect for me and the dog, on the 15th floor or an elevator building. No more stairs up and down five flights several times a day. I’m actually much happier here; living in the middle of a university campus, I rarely ventured into the outside world, and our little enclave of foreign teachers lived behind a high fence with an alarmed gate and security bars on all the windows. Now, I’m in the middle of the busy city, in a much more residential area, with a completely different feeling from the internationalized area around Sichuan U. I’m enrolled as a student at the Southwest University for Nationalities, a 20-minute walk from my apartment, and I have 12 classes of Chinese each week. Since I was unable to renew my work visa, I got a student visa instead, hence</p><a href="http://runningintomyself-blog.com/?p=6168">(More)…</a>]]></description>
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		<title>build a tower</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to write this post for a while; as usual, however, life got in the way and it was delayed. I&#8217;ve now done this team-building activity with two different classes, and it proved to be a lot of fun. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; The Marshmallow Challenge was created by Tom Wujec, and he describes the activity in a TED2010 Talk [click photo above to view video]. The object of the activity is to enhance group and cooperative learning skills through creativity, planning, trial &#38; error, and problem-solving as a part of a team. It involves building a tower using dry spaghetti, tape, string, and marshmallows. As a bonus, the extra marshmallows provided snacks for instant energy. &#160; &#160; Here are some of the photos from my English for Academic Purposes class as they constructed their towers. As it turned out, the students fell in love with the red clothesline string I provided, and used way too much of it. Oh well, I&#8217;m not one for strictly following instructions anyway. A few of the students also chose to snack on the spaghetti (uncooked) afterwards, which I didn&#8217;t recommend. &#160; &#160; After the towers were completed, a committee of judges used a tape measure to determine which one was tallest. Prizes were awarded for height and creativity &#8211; one tower was shaped like the Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai. During the activity I played a mixture of pop, disco, and 70s R&#38;B music for inspiration. If you try this</p><a href="http://runningintomyself-blog.com/?p=6069">(More)…</a>]]></description>
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