12. Learn to bargain. Don't accept the first price given by peddlers – it is likely high.
A foreign tourist bargains with a shop owner at the Silk Street shopping mall and market in Beijing, China, 19 March 2005.
We hope for a better 2015 and I am an optimist. However we have not started the new year well and there are three worries that will dog us as the year progresses.
This message is not just for Westerners whose selective endorsement of freedoms has incited those terrible actions and opened this discussion.
When I was a kid, I was just like every other kid. I didn't like school much. Oh, as usual, I liked being with friends and having fun.
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