The Universal Migrator

I’ve finally gotten all of the photos from my trip online–well, the ones I’m going to be posting anyway, there are thousands of them all together! Click “Mongol-China Adventure 2007″ in the right column or the banner below to view the photos. Soon I’ll be adding some commentary and photo explanations, though the photos by themselves will have to suffice for now.

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This is horrible news! Well, it’s not a tragedy, but come on, like this is really going to help the economy of Xi’an?! It’ll just be another overpriced western venue, unaffordable to a lot of the people in the city.

April 28, 2006

Wang Jinlong, chairman of Starbucks China, says his company hopes to make Xi’an an important city in the northwest part of China to develop its business and wants to work with the local government to quickly open new businesses.

Wang said that he will bring the successful operation model of Starbucks to Xi’an and set up a flagship store there.

Starbucks was started in Seattle in 1971. At present, it has 11,000 chain stores across the world, including up to 200 stores in Beijing, Shanghai and the rest of China.

This article is originally from ChinaFranchiser.com.

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I’ve posted some photos from a trip to a rural primary school in the Chinese countryside two hours outside of Xi’an. This entry represents my final photo entry for my adventure in Xi’an during the summer of 2005. Though I may still post about that trip again. It was a highly life-changing adventure, and one that I plan to continue in the beginning of 2007, and hope to prolong for as many years as possible. Until then, I hope you enjoy my pictures!

Chinese Countryside Primary School 中国农村小学

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I’ve finally posted some photos of myself and other volunteers doing different things around the city. I didn’t take too many photos of activity in the city, but here you can see the few that I did capture.

Check out Volunteer Life in 西安 Xian!

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Check out the newest photo additions to the Xi’an Perspectives page! The new photos were taken during my time at the Big Wild Goose Pagoda Primary School 大鹅塔小学 (Da Yan Ta Xiao Xue).

Big Wild Goose Pagoda Primary School 大雁塔小学

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