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When China isn’t polluting or putting torches on buses, they like to get down and dirty on some athletic competitions. Ping Pong’s name likely comes from the Chinese name, ping pang qiu, which is ping pong ball in english. This continues the trend of sports having qiu in the name of sports (lanqiu is basket ball, etc). Here it is played like it is much more than the family sport I have come to see it as.

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UPDATE: I have received my tickets or confirmation of E-tickets. There were more steps, but I don’t feel like documenting them. But, I am glad to know that it is over and I will never purchase anything from Elong again.

As many of you know, I am leaving Wuhan and China in just a few weeks to come back to Sunny Philadelphia. What you don’t know is what a pain it has been to get a ticket home.

Part 1 of the problem came when it came to my attention that my boss had no idea when school was ending or when we could actually leave. After some confusion and arriving upon maybe June 5, we were told that the 25th is the first day we could go.
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