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		<title>Where I Come From</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Chinese student, a talented English major from a university in Hunan, China, asked me to describe my hometown.  This is what I wrote: Smethport is very different from Chenzhou.  It is like a dream that I&#8217;m afraid will seem unreal or too abstract for you to realize.  Words alone are not enough to describe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Back to China</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I rolled through an intersection without stopping.  I pounded, tapped, blasted, and played the car horn like a motherfucking riot.  And wherever I went pedestrians and motorists alike trembled in fear.  America is a diverse country.  That was something I had missed while teaching in Hunan last year.  I had missed the Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indochina Expedition 2010: Eve of Departure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first semester in China as an English teacher was over.  I would leave at dawn for Vietnam on Monday, January 25, 2010.  Now it was time to go and see if I had what it takes to travel for real.  This would be the first time traveling alone in the developing world without a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness is a Vampire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day I discover other worlds so unlike the one I once called home.  The possibilities seem boundless.  I even fantasize about coming to America to become a Wal Mart door greeter or an assistant manager at McDonald&#8217;s.  If I work hard for a couple years and save money, then I could return to paradise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspectives on China</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/perspectives-on-china-536</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Traveling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[November was nearly over here in the heartland of China.  The days alternated between short manic bursts of sunny, blue skies and  longer periods of sunless, chilly days full of drizzle and melancholy.  It was weather most conducive  to studying Mandarin, writing for my own site, and reading other people&#8217;s blogs.  One of my favorite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bear Fighting in Cyberspace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some have wondered if I will one day practice medicine in China.  During an interview at Rocky Mountain College, home of the Battlin&#8217; Bears, the director had even suggested that I could do a clinical rotation here.  The thought had occurred to me many times.  Many friends and fellow Bull Dogs from Yale University’s PA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Journey to Hengshan Mountain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fox women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guanxi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taoism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We took the midnight express back to Chenzhou from Hengshan late Saturday night.  This meant getting dirty.  I once spent four years as a grunt.  Digging foxholes and wading through marshes was dirty work too.  I look back at this previous incarnation with nostalgia as I board a crowded train in which tickets were sold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>36 Hours in Billings, MT</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Red Lodge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While all of China took to the road and celebrated its 60th anniversary with a week long celebration I ducked out of the country for a quick trip to Billings, Montana.  The Rocky Mountain College Physician Assistant program had invited me for interview.  Though I was already missing teaching English literature and drama to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dinner with the Yu Family</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/dinner-with-the-yu-family-286</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Traveling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Twilight]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One late summer evening before the sun went down, I was at dinner and had what appeared to be a glass of Chinese wine at an open air restaurant from across the campus.  Children surrounded me.  It was cooler now and all the neighborhood children were playing.  One by one they came by my table [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Shopper’s Paradise</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/a-shopper%e2%80%99s-paradise-152</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/a-shopper%e2%80%99s-paradise-152#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Traveling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[China has meant so much to my imagination that the reality shocked me.  I still cannot get the images of Shaolin warrior monks out of my mind.  Or workers in Mao suits brandishing Little Red Books.  Or even just old folk practicing tai chi in a public square.  I half expected to find them all [...]]]></description>
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