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Liuyang Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Liuyang, China
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End of my (mis)adventures
This is a top pick! ... . The air was so cloudy from smoke that I could barely see where I was walking, and the streets ran red with the tattered wrappers of exploded fireworks. This is what it's like to live in the city of Liuyang...really, really loud and really, really ...
Zai jian, Liuyang!
This is a top pick! ... be able to see some fireworks, because that would be a novel experience. I haven't seen fireworks in about 24 hours. Farewell, Liuyang. I will miss the wafting perfume of stinky tofu and garbage that greeted me daily on the street, the 5:45am wake up ...
November 5, 2004
This is a top pick! ... than I had anticipated. On Monday, I received notice from the school that from now on, if I travel anywhere outside of Liuyang, I must request permission first. I was even handed a stack of "travel application forms," which I spent the remainder of the ...
Trip to Jinshi, Trip to Guangzhou
This is a top pick! ... , of the same blood and background. Sometimes I see the positive aspects of this reflected in my relationships with people in Liuyang. My students, who (I think) feel very comfortable around me...Maggie, who told me the other teachers think I am like ...
September 28, 2004
This is a top pick! ... from the life of a peasant. The holiday turned out to be very simple but nice. That night Nancy, Principal Liu and I attended a Liuyang party for the various town bigwigs at the park down the street from school. We drank some local wine, ate moon cakes ...
September 18, 2004
This is a top pick! ... . Over 100,000 people stood by the banks of the Liuyang River dressed in matching shirts and sang a song, appropriately enough entitled "Liuyang River." I went with my work unit of fellow teachers and was given a Chinese flag to wave in unison to the beat ...
September 11, 2004
This is a top pick! ... wrapped up and we all went our separate ways to our respective schools. I am now about an hour away in a city called Liuyang, much smaller and more provincial. It's a slightly more attractive city, surrounded on all sides by mountains and sitting next to ...
January 11, 2005
This is a top pick! ... , and the Irish were present, as were Colin, Jason, Patrick, Kogi, and a few other random people. In keeping with the Liuyang motto, "one more can't hurt," we celebrated until 4am at the karaoke place. Despite the fact that I was told in September ...
December 7, 2004
This is a top pick! ... once we took a detour along tiny side trails and were able to take rests next to clear mountain streams. So now I'm back in Liuyang, where I've been for the past couple of weeks, coping with the pervasive cold that has finally set in. My apartment ...
Springtime in Liuyang
This is a top pick! ... they wrote in response, as usual, had a few particularly amusing quotes which I will share with you. "Dear Bogarr, I'm Jemmy. I live in Liuyang, China. I am 13 years old. I love playing all kinds of balls." -Jemmy "I want to be a roam about poet. ...
Massages, Monkeys, Madness
This is a top pick! ... , anything was possible. I couldn't believe that the protests had reached us here, the most inner and isolated part of China. I arrived in Liuyang quite a few hours later, tired and grateful that the weekend was winding down. As I made the walk from ...
March 15, 2005
This is a top pick! ... excerpts. No commentary necessary. My favorite sport is tennis racket. -Gail My English name is Chrissy. I am from China. I live in Hunan. I'm a girl. -Chrissy My favorite foods are hambergar and ice gram. -Stary My favorite foods are KFC ...
November 23, 2004
This is a top pick! Another couple of weeks in Liuyang and I'm itching to travel once again. I have spent the last week recovering from a combination of head cold and stomach ache. A fellow WorldTeach volunteer came into town this past weekend and I had a good time showing ...
October 31, 2004
This is a top pick! ... . Last weekend, some of the girls (Shannon, Rachel, AJ and Jenny) came into town to visit and Shelly planned a warm Liuyang reception for them, including-naturally-fireworks. Her uncle works at one of the fireworks companies in town and when we met her on ...
January 3, 2005
This is a top pick! ... go...sad also, because I no longer get to tag along and stay in their heated hotel rooms with them. I'm back here in Liuyang, although hopefully not for long. Spring break should start very soon. The plans to go to Thailand have been scrapped in light of ...
Visit to the Unfinished Fireworks Factory
With over 2000 fireworks factories in the Liuyang area it makes sense that there are factories under construction, We had the priviledge of a tour of a state of the art fireworks factory under construction. Note that all of the lumber for roof ...
The first time
I made it, My first trip into China. First thoughts, "This is not what I've been taught about China". Everyone is so friendly, The food is not bad, the fruit is some of the best I've ...
Opening Night Entertainment and Fireworks
At the last minute we managed to secure tickets to the Internation Fireworks Festival of the International Fireworks Association in Liuyang China on October 27th, 2007. It was the most increadible pagent with as many as 300 dancers on the stage at any ...
Ariel Shell Factory
There are more than 2000 fireworks factories in Liuyang China. The process of making an ariel Shell starts with forming the chip board sphere and winds its way through the factory until it ends up being labeled in the language ...
Girandolas
... .) Sometimes they cannot. But just because it is not on the catalogue should in no way discourage you from asking. If you buy direct from China, or you buy from somebody who buys direct. . .the worst thing that can happen is you ask and they say no. . ...
Factory Visits
Jackie Whedbee Larry Mattingly Mira LaCous Christy Chen Mr. Lee Watching Fireworks Demo The Proximate Factory produced every kind of proximate fireworks imaginable as well as daylight smoke and ...
Visit to the 1.4 and Shell Factory
The Cake Factory that we visited did 1.4 consumer cakes as well as large 1.3 cakes that contain 1.3 ariel shells and multiple effects. There ...
China Liuyang International Fireworks Exhibition
Liuyang China Don't do this at home! The pyrotechnichians dream So you unpack your box of shells from China. . Never thinking of what it takes for a factory to pump out case after case of your favorite ...
Checking Out The Town Of Liuyang
... 4 different occasions. You could see construction in every direction. We were told there were 56 construction cranes in downtown Liuyang It was Christy Chen's birthday (our Smart Star interpreter). While Mira and I were out walking we ...
The IFA Fireworks Festival - Fireworks Comptition
... be sitting with Larry Mattingly half way around the world from my home, in a dusty field in the Hunan Province of China, in the City of Liuyang, wiring up single shot comets as fast as we could go into 16 shot sequencing modules for 5 hours followed by ...
Fireworks City
... come out to take walks, especially in the central shopping plaza near the river. I think Liuyang is probably a good microcosm displaying the development of China. It's a smaller, isolated city but rich because of its natural resources and its ...
Combat Driving
... were marked 90 km 80 km and 60 km on the lanes . . .we went well over 120 km going to the airport in a taxi. In Liuyang there were no marked speeds. In this "Rural" City of only about 1.5 million people . . at any given time there would be nice ...
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