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Zhengzhou Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Zhengzhou, China
something to write home about
This is a top pick! ... 't stressed out. "Yeah! Where are you now?" He asked. "We're in Zhengzhou," I told him. "That is much better than being interrogated," Jackie said. "Yes, ...
Luoyang/Shaolin Temple/Zhengzhou
This is a top pick! ... the Earth). About 300 meters west of Shaolin Monastery is the Forest of Stupas, the largest group of stupas in China, serving as the tombs for Shaolin monks after they die. The existent over 220 stupas of brick and stone were ...
Kung Fu fighting
This is a top pick! ... a few minutes we are off the train and carrying our 20kg backpacks. Blurry eyed we begin to search for a hotel room. Zhengzhou has a cool climate in September although it's not too much fun finding somewhere with our heavy bags and empty stomachs. ...
Happy Mao Day!
This is a top pick! ... and I piled into a van with Jackie and the Japanese teacher wearing our finest clothes. We were headed to Zhengzhou to the Communist Party's National Day Reception. National Day is October First and it commemorates Chairman ...
Do we, don't we
... Ivy International Preparatory School and it’s in a seaside town. There are a much less people in Weihai than Zhengzhou. In Zhengzhou for every square kilometre there are 3200 people whereas in Weihai there are only 800. We are looking forward to ...
Life is comfortable here so far
... who will either go to bars or to go meetings). Obviously, I'm a barfly. The bar I go to is a good place. Most bars in China only have a lifespan of about 3 years. Basically, they piss someone off or drugs are a haven in the place and it gets shut down. ...
ErQi Square
... so decided to head down the road to a temple not far from the apartment. I think this is the only touristy attraction in Zhengzhou city apart from the extremely boring looking art museum. On the way out of our apartment a group of girls started dancing on ...
Marbles and Fish eyes
... last week. I had a few naughty classes through the week but not anything to worry about as hopefully Steve will sort those out. Zhengzhou is a very dry city and nothing seems to change in the weather. We have some variation of dust, sun and wind. For the ...
Broke up yet another fight....
One thing I never had to do till I came to Zhengzhou was break up a fight in a school. The first fight I broke up happened in class while I was teaching. They were two students who sat next to each other. One had the other's shirt over his head and was ...
A better place...
... . However, as I said I am still in China. And the more I find out the more I am convinced that basically everyplace in China is pretty similar. A former coworker of mine in a US school has been living and working in Shanghai. A lot of the problems I ...
The letter U
With an awful end to last week we decided to start the weekend off well with a morning walk to the bakery for a good old English egg sandwich. Being 10am outside the temperature still managed to rocket above 26c. With the sweltering heat mixed with the ...
Kung Fu Style!
We visited The Shaoling monastery today, got to watch the monks in action! We arrived at the entrance of a very commercial looking area, got our tickets, and went through to a crowded road! We walked down to the school, and here we watched a Kung fu ...
I wonder the stories my room mate will tell....
... . It was like he was describing a bunch of people who were just out of touch with reality. From what I know, in China suicide is considered a very, very bad thing. When someone does kill themselves the family is held criminally responsible. My room mate ...
Still wishing I was there.
... I was having a minor asthma attack in temps above 40 degrees. And it was in my ideal weather zone, too. Coming back into Zhengzhou I could tell it was getting harder and harder to breathe. I had already cracked and couldn't hold a fast pace, so I know it ...
90% done.
Not a whole lot going on. I'm a short timer now, so I'm just taking it easy and preparing for my return to the US. I'm more excited than you can imagine. I'll just leave it at that. This week I will have one or two days off. I don't know how many nor ...
When you teach here you don't choose your roommate
... Now, I'm going to try to keep it from becoming me complaining about him, but more about the one type of expats that tends to come to China as he is a fairly classic example of one of the groups. On the surface he's a nice guy. He won't want to slam you ...
I can't say i wasn't warned.....
... when this was) the guard (there was one guard for each carriage) came and woke me up (thankfully) and that was that. So i arrived in zhengzhou and thought i'd go on the hunt for a hotel to stay in so went to the one at the top of the list in my travel ...
Goodbye, Fairwell, Zài jiàn
... now booked train tickets and hostels so there is no going back. The first part of our trip is more or less the same. Zhengzhou – Xi’an – Taishan – Weihai – Beijing. After Beijing we are planning on heading down south to ...
Black holes and the galaxy
.From air raids to paramedics, from the universe to the drunken legs, it's been one hell of a week! Little did we know at the time, Monday was going to be the most normal day of the week ahead. Tuesday started off fairly usual, sitting in the office ...
What do you do when you hate to travel...
... been coming apart. After much lallygagging and losing stereo capabilities I decided to go out and search for a new adapter. Now, China actually does this part in a cool way. Instead of having individual specialized adapters for every model of phone they ...
The drive to Zhengzhou
... if you have a chauffeur to drive you around, you sit in the passenger seat, and enjoy the view. Right? Not so in China. We travelled to Zhengzhou today, as tomorrow we have to go to a hospital to have the same medical tests that we had in NZ before we ...
1 month in China
... anybody we talk to we now consider our friend due to the lack of friends we really have, I am starting to feel comfortable in Zhengzhou. This week has been a whirl wind of emotions, as I have now caught a bug (bound to happen) it’s been extra hard ...
Shaolin Temple
... of people everywhere - well China does have a whopping population of over 1.3 billion people. There was nothing particularly interesting about Zhengzhou, to be honest it was dirty, grey and boring, we were just using it as a hub to visit the Shaolin ...
Riding the lawnmower
... like a moped bike that you would find in a skip, the one I was on was taped together. Not only this but driving in China is a little dangerous. I was on the back of (Chinese) Tom’s bike and Oliver was on the back of (Chinese) Steve’s bike. ...
A day to celebrate the best
... ;s starting to go away now so fingers crossed. I do have a very good tip for anyone trying to lose weight though, come to China. I am slowly ruining Oliver’s belt by the amount of new holes I’m poking into it. This does mean that soon all my ...
Human pinball machine
... on to. Our luck didn’t hold out as at every stop more and more people got on. With every bump in the road (in China there are a lot) and with every turn, everyone was flung around inside. We were holding onto the seats for our lives. Finally we ...
Mass destruction
... per litre. It does bring a smile which is what we need to get through this very long week in this very hot weather. China only really has 2 seasons, summer and winter. In between these seasons there is about a week of comfortable weather, this was last ...
Astrodance
With those Monday morning blues upon us made worse by the fact that Oliver had no lesson plan. This meant instead of a relaxing start to the week we had to get our brains working at what should be an illegal time in the morning. Realising the time we ...