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Category: Personal Growth

Vegetarian

2 January, 2009 (12:54) | Environment, Food, Personal Growth, Thoughts | 1 comment

I’m not sure what has spurred me to take this leap.  It may have been all of the environmental classes that I’ve taken over the past couple of years,  it could have been randomly stumbling upon chooseveg.com and watching their slaughterhouse videos, or it could be an intesified desire to save the world after having [...]

48 Hour Block / Spider Mountain

4 September, 2008 (19:13) | China Blog, Climbing, Personal Growth, Running | No comments

The past two and a half days all blend together with sleep, not sleep, hiking, being lost hiking, being woken up for dinner, running out of bottled water, YouTube marathoning, real marathon training, failing, skyping, good news, and sitting.  I’m going to try a new format and just write on a time line.
Tuesday 2000: I [...]

New Bike! Foriegn Realization

12 June, 2008 (10:04) | China Blog, Personal Growth, Thoughts | No comments

Thursday: Today I bought a bike for 305 kuai (50 USD) with another student. His limited Chinese and my severly limited Chinese somehow made it work. I know how to say “that one, how much money?” There wasn’t very much bargaining because it was their cheaper version, but they threw in a basket [...]