Zhendema?

Zhende.

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Catching chips in Cape Town, South Africa

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APSA Scholars and Facilitators in serious mode.

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Classroom shots from the Dandelion School in rural Beijing, China.

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Cuties from the Dandelion School, a school for migrant children in the outskirts of Beijing, China. China operates on a "hukou" system that dictates children may only attend school in the area which they are born. This leaves hundreds of thousands of migrant children without public education in Beijing. The Dandelion School and its volunteers are doing what they can to give these kids the opportunities they deserve to learn.

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A few of the incredible people I've been spending time with on the Americans Promoting Study Abroad (APSA) summer program in Beijing, China.

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Got to play around with a 5D this weekend. I am so in love. :)

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"I would like to bring art to improbable places, create projects so huge with the community that they are forced to ask themselves questions."

JR, Beaux Arts Magazine. Check out his project at http://www.insideoutproject.net/en

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My shadow contrasts sharply upon the grey cobblestone sidewalk. The temperature changes against my skin as I pass from direct sunlight into the shade and back out again. So many things excite me after six days of haze, the simple pleasures of a sunny day. :)

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Mongooolia. 

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Love the Inner Mongolian skies. :)

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Views don't get much better than this :)

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Hey i was looking through your blog and it looks like you live in Beijing? Im moving there in a few weeks. How do you like it?

Hey! Great choice, Beijing is an amazing place to live. It's often a love-hate relationship with traffic, pollution and the typical city woes, but there is so much opportunity and life here that it easily balances out. Prepare yourself for the choices and the paradoxes - it's a crazy mindfuck of being able to do, think and live almost any way you'd like while surrounded by millions of people who challenge everything you think you know. Whether you're coming for work or play, it can be as international or Chinese as you'd like and you get out of the experience what you put in. It's fun, it's young, it's constantly changing. Have a safe move, you're in for the time of your life. :)

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Yujiacun, an ancient stone village in Hebei, China.

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Cangyan Mountain in Hebei, China. An easy day trip outside of Beijing, well worth the trip.

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and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!’

Jack Kerouac, On The Road

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thanks for the smile, friend. i always know you care.

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the reality of distance. it's hard to stay in touch when we live so far away.