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	<title>Getting By</title>
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		<title>Europe: Destination of Champions?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the European Union squabbling, my belief that Europe is not the place to be is only reinforced.
Now, I know most Americans go to Europe because, well&#8230;actually, I have no idea why.  It&#8217;s easy, fine.  It&#8217;s what you know, fine.  But is it new?  Not particularly.  It&#8217;s rife with history, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, Bloody Sunday Pt. 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The end, as it were.
After I got into the main venue, I made my way to the Bird&#8217;s Nest to see what I could see.  Of course, I had my pins with me, and was thinking maybe I could sell a few.  No, that&#8217;s a lie: at this point I had given up on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://youngabroad.com/?p=30</link>
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		<title>Sunday, Bloody Sunday Pt. 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, things obviously got slack from when I first started this.  What can I say, Fall Semester was just brutal; I’m a bit surprised I made it through it alive.  But New Year means New Leaves to be turned, right?  So here goes a resurgence of traveling.  And, really, it’ll be fun.
I left off with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://youngabroad.com/?p=28</link>
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		<title>Sunday, Bloody Sunday Pt. 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is a few days late, but I’ve been unable to decide on the best means of relating the events of my last Olympic Beijing Day.  I toyed with the idea of a mini-series-esque approach, several different episodes spanning a week or so of posts, relating backstory and perhaps an intricate sub-plot or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://youngabroad.com/?p=27</link>
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		<title>With Relevance to Yesterday&#8217;s Advice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, August 10th
After watching a preliminary round of Women&#8217;s Artistic Gymnastics (which I got into for free because a nice Chinese woman, whose husband couldn&#8217;t make it, gave me a free ticket), I wandered around the Olympic Greens trying to trade pins.  Success was relative.  What I did gain from those aimless wanderings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://youngabroad.com/?p=25</link>
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		<title>Free (Olympic) Tickets For Dummies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prerequisites:
•    Cardboard box
•    Dark, preferably black Marker
•    Pencil (Necessity dependant on Artistic Integrity)
•    Approximately 30min (Dependant on Artistic Integrity)
•    Absolutely no shame, a pitiable smile, and strong, or at least durable, arms
Preparation:
•    Tear off a sizable chunk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://youngabroad.com/?p=24</link>
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		<title>Opening Ceremonies and Beyond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opening Ceremonies were, I’m told, a rousing success.  Granted it took a couple of hours to get home for most, that’s to be expected with a stadium crowd of 90,000 or so, and who knows how many people on the streets just watching the fireworks and lights.  I spent the night in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://youngabroad.com/?p=23</link>
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		<title>Another Kind of Olympic Fervor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Screening for the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremonies is projected to take four hours. The placement of anti-aircraft batteries around the Nest is no secret, while miles of fencing (paradoxically plastered with the &#8220;One World, One Dream&#8221; slogan), and pervasive security forces make casual strolling through the Olympic Greens impossible without accreditation. Staring up at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://youngabroad.com/?p=22</link>
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		<title>Olympics, hoo!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little over a year ago I was studying Mandarin in Beijing.  There were days I would walk out of my apartment complex in the student district and, thanks to the dense smog, not be able to see across the street.  In fact, I did not realize that there were mountains around Beijing until almost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://youngabroad.com/?p=21</link>
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		<title>Feet on Solid Ground</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lack of posts recently, I know.  Been backpacking around Thailand, and finding time to sit down and compose something masterful ain&#8217;t exactly easy.  In a week and a half or so I&#8217;ll be back in Beijing, with a bit of stability and my own laptop, so expect posts around that time.
Until then, keep on keepin&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://youngabroad.com/?p=20</link>
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