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Cooking Gansu Style The fire is in the wide copper portion of the cooker. The ash falls down, but the heat goes up! |
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A Gansu Gourmet Dinner In the background, Roger and LiShen, one of Lingling's students. |
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Hail, hail, the Gang's all here. From the left: a Gansu official, Susan, Laura, Tony, Amy, Roger, LingLing, LiShen, and another Gansu official. |
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A new hairstyle for the occasion One of Amy's presents: hair wax, to give hair a "lift." Here's Laura trying it out on Amy. |
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Outside the Office It was clear that spring was here. Aren't those grapes and flowers we see? |
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Ah, for a little wine! Believe it or not, the most widely distributed wine here is "Great Wall" wine! Are you ready, Seym? |
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The view from LingLing's LingLing's apartment sits on a lake and overlooks Bamboo Park (also known as Zizhuyuan Park). Here the is view of downtown Beijing. |
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Bamboo Park You can't see it, but this is the site of the Beijing Zoo (in the distance). |
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Bamboo Park With people out for a stroll. |
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Yuyuan Lake You can also see Yuyuan Lake from LingLing's apartment. Can you see the paddle boats? Spring has arrived! |
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Susan and Laura in Lingling's Aparment Note the huge chair! Wish you could really appreciate the background view - -but take a look at the rest of the photos shot from the window. |
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The Birthday Girl Do you think the hairstyle and the hair ornaments will set a new style trend? |