Anshan
Travel Blogs from Anshan, China
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Traffic and Vehicles
... open road, when a car or bus approaches a slower vehicle, the driver honks as a warning. Jay-walking is the norm. While we have been in Anshan, we have all been driven. One of our cars got hit in a parking lot, and another car ran up over a tree. A new ...
Anshan
Our Anshan host principals are treating us like royalty. Last night we had a briefing at the Anshan City Bureau of Education followed by a welcome banquet at a luxurious hotel. Toasts and good will flowed freely. Anshan is a city of 3.5 million with ...
School Visits Day Two
... sponsored by the Haicheng Bureau of Education. In attendance were the deputy mayor, and the head of the Bureau of Education, along with Anshan officials. More toasts all around. When I get home, I will be able to post photos. The story is only half ...
Anshan School Visits
... a beautiful scroll from a girl named Cherry. Her note said she and her grandfather had painted it. At our next school, Anshan Oriental School, we observed morning exercises. The activity was similar to what we had seen before: students standing in rows ...
First Day of School Visits
... you a happy visit." The Chinese students I have met are carefully instructed in etiquette. Late in the afternoon, we drove back to Anshan (about 30 minutes) to attend a performance at Anshan No. 51 Middle School with 4000 students. We were greeted by ...
The First Few Days are the Hardest
Well, here I am in Anshan! I'm at the school right now, because my Internet at my apartment won't be up for a few days. Wow, I don't even know where to begin, i guess with the plane ride. Well, luckily for me the plane was not filled to ...
Getting my bearings...
... will think Americans are even bigger assholes than ever!), i really am beginning to think that he's my guardian angel here in China. We spent the whole afternoon talking, then went for a walk in 219 park, a large and beautiful park that is ...
Needle in my nose!
... family and close friends call them) is at school. Shuang Shuang is 16, and a junior at the best high school in Anshan. This isn't bragging about the wealth or position of my Chinese family. In China, after 9th grade all students take an exam ...
Settling in to my new home
... buying another bracelet, after the unfortunate destruction of my old one at Mario's a few months ago. The people of China continue to amaze me with their incredible friendliness and eagerness to meet and speak to foreigners...as soon as one word ...
Teaching...
So I started teaching this week. I am absolutely in love with every single one of my kindergartners, they are so sweet and so excited and just want to play and show you everything they can say. We played a game called Switch! It is sort ...
Day 69 - Purpose of Passion
Today is our last day in Kunming before heading to Dali. We sleep in a bit to let ourselves recharge before stepping out into the daylight. It's a glorious day – the peerless blue sky dotted with cotton swabs of white, listing lazily in the ...
A Day in the Life...Part 1
... people are aware that China is vastly different from America, and want to know, how? This is a difficult question, China is definitely completely different but its hard to sum up all of the many small differences that total up to a completely ...
Ex pats
... dinner and introduced us to many of the foreigners in the area. it was an....experience. Many of them seem to dislike China and much of the culture and griped about a lot of their experiences. I was a bit disappointed as after my initial ...
National Day Holiday
... stunning. climbing was exhausting but the views were absolutely breathtaking, and totally worth the trip. I love exploring in China, its much less safety coated than America. There were parts of the climb that were slightly scary, but ...
Puking and proposing
... ; The entries are a little backwards...I started writing this one first and then went back to document my previous adventures in China. Anyhow, after a rough first draft it's 3:45am and I try to get some sleep. I'm tossing and turning and ...
SPA experience - China style
Today Sarah's parents wanted to treat me to a spa at the local spa house. I didn't think anything of it...I've been to spas before in NY and I've even been to natural springs (onsens) in Japan...but this was a totally different ...
Arriving in Anshan
... seen her mom's picture before so it was rather emabarrasing when I mistook her uncle for her father. Anshan is the biggest steel producing city in China and her mom is involved in that business. It was an hour drive to Anshan from the ...
Ting, bu dong
... ) so everyone drives the very narrow back roads through farmland that we drove. We thought that was very economical. :) In Ma'anshan, we checked into our hotel and hung out with Shanshan and Jingjing until dinner, which was in a banquet room at the ...
I ate a turtle, and I liked it...
This morning started, of course, with... ok, food. An amazing breakfast. This hotel has a wonderful breakfast buffet that includes tons of Chinese food and a tiny bit of useless Western food which we have no interest in, plus coffee which we ...
Anshan U.
Today was my second day teaching and it seems to be going well, but I can't really tell how much is sinking in. Oh well. Tonight I ate with the UAB students at our usual restaurant. They always eat there when KC is not with them because it is good, ...
A pretty typical day in Anshan
It was raining when I woke up. Apparently there was a big storm during the night, but I didn't hear it. Breakfast at the hotel consists of strong coffee, dim sum (steamed rolls with various fillings), dry pastries, scrambled eggs and some Chinese ...
Wo HAI PA !!!
Today was so very excellent. Honey, you can't describe. We started off the morning by driving through an area nearby Ma'anshan. At this point, I'm letting a lot of names and nouns pass me by... sorry... so I'll say, it was an important ...
Atypical Days or What an Interesting Place!
... the Forbidden City in Beijing. That one was built after the Qing Dynasty moved the capital to Beijing. Yesterday, Sunday, we stayed in Anshan. After lunch we went to the shopping district. One dollar dvds - even The Da Vinci Code and MI-3 - were a ...
Liaoning Province
... Sanzha Steel after the speech. (A note about scale: I am not exactly sure how big they are, but they are the third largest in Anshan; the largest is Anshan Iron and Steel Group with 500,000 employees right here.) They took us to view their facilities ...
Leaving Anshan
... senior VP for Anshan Steel, Mr. Fu, took KC and I to dinner with his son (who we hope to recruit to UAB) and some Anshan's top managers. He ordered the one thing I swore I would not eat: sea cucumber (note: not a vegetable). It looks like dung with ...
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