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Dalian Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Dalian, China
Went "walkabout" with a 100,000 mates or so!
Sunday was the 10th Dalian International Walking Festival. I'm guessing it’s international due to the handful of non-Chinese participants; at least I’m not aware of anyone who purposely flew in for this event. I do believe I did see another ...
Halloween China Style
... photos taken by strangers. At one point I looked around me and thought, " Wait a second, I am in dance circle with people from all over the world celebrating Halloween in a Russian restaurant in China!" It was quite a good Halloween to say the ...
Kindergarten part 2
Ok so I am currently writing this as I hide in a curtained section of the kindergarten so that I don't scare the new child. She is less than two years old and this is her first day at a kindergarten away from grandma and mom. She is very freaked out and ...
AW1: Teamwork, Intensity and a Quarry
... The comfort of our heart-warming meal, dissipated quickly, as we travelled deeper and deeper into the industrial wasteland outside Dalian. Finally arriving, at one of the bleakest places I have ever visited; barren, scarred, apocalyptic. From lush, ...
I had Chinese food for lunch & dinner
Oh really Bruce - what a surprise!! A special "Hello" to Jessica, Gregory and David who according to their Dad are doing a great job of taking care of Molly. Thank you very much!! Molly and I both appreciate all the love and attention you're giving her!! ...
Munchkins from across the other pond
No, not from Dunkin Donuts although they do have stores here now. I'm talking about the kids I'm seeing. I've had a ball observing all the little ones on my various excursions. Parents and grandparents (and the kids) have been very willing to pose for ...
Death by 4?
... . We stopped quickly at our hotel, long enough to email home my phone number home and I managed to talk to Gramma on skype. In China, if you are going to be staying for any length of time, you have to register at the police station. It was the same ...
A Week in the City
... can take hours to get 4 people into the one taxi! Tuesday - today we went to the recently opened B&Q and IKEA in Dalian, to get some house refurbishment ideas. It was nice to sit in the IKEA restaurant and eat Swedish meatballs, then wander ...
Intensity as a factor of innovation AX1
Working in teams today involved two very different aspects. The first was during the site visit as well as the bus ride. During this time, most conversations were one-to-one in a very relaxed setting. The Insensitive work started during the preparation ...
Archie's... a bad Anglicism and a great jacket.
... of the weekend more when you are in school rather than gallivanting around the country. So today's mission was to head into Dalian, and find the elusive Archie's. Archie's is the place to go, apparently for tailored clothing. Travelling in a large ...
A Year of Adventures or Irritants?
Who knew that when I arrived I would be staying for my third year! My newbie year seems like ages ago.....time flies when you're having fun (?) However, year three into a career and we're both ready to be students again! Being an "adult" has too many ...
[AZ3] Mood Swings
... ideation process today can be described below: 5 minutes brainstorm of the team's ideas about how to use the quarry in Dalian represented by one word and one sketch. Followed by 5 minutes brainstorm of the connecting factor of those ideas represented by ...
What hit me? I feel awful
... and awaking at 3:45. I felt much better last night. Still feeling a little out of it this morning but much better than yesterday. Our Dalian team lead Ralph came to the hotel around 6:00 and we walked down the street and had a nice dinner. The meal we had ...
[BW3] Day 3. Diversity affecting Ideation
how did any factors of diversity influence teamwork during ideation and design processes? Brainstorm ideas from different backgrounds At this stage we had an empathy map and some insights so we created our point of view and started brainstorming ...
Dalian
... that I see signs with Russian. This probably has to do with its proximity to Russia and a large number of Russians working here. Dalian is also very close to North Korea, and there are buses that will take you the China-N. Korea border, but we didn't ...
Sad Event - Warning: Mildly Graphic
---There is a blog post right before this one. It is happy. ---- During the latter half of our time at the beach, a sad event was unfolding. I observed a few key moments in the drama, but much of what follows has been reconstructed from my ...
New Years Eve on the Wall, (Bangers R Us)
... to 10 knots, then the swimming pools froze over and icicles hung from the edges. We were advised to dress up warmly for China and the shop did a roaring trade in fleeces and pashminas. After docking at ...
Away From Home
... for an American, regardless of where we are in the world. It almost hurts a little more because I'm far away from my people. I really like China. The culture, the food, the people, all more or less good. In some ways I prefer it to the US. But it is ...
Back in China
... have a tendency to get cynical and burnt out after a short while. It's obvious that many of my coworkers found themselves less tolerant of China after the vacation. Most of the time, I am still quite in love with asia. But over all, the teachers here are ...
The Last Three Hours of School...
On my lunchbreak right now... Ahhhhh, the last three hours of school and the staff and students are exhausted. I know what you're all thinking, WHAT, only three weeks into teaching and you have a holiday already....I know, I know, we're spoiled. But ...
Surviving in Dalian
an assortment of photos that I took while teaching/living/exploring in Dalian, ...
I've arrived!
I can hear the whirr of a lawnmower as they cut the grass on the baseball diamond next store. China is loud. You can always hear the sounds of someone scraping, shovelling, demolishing and building. People are always working. And it's a busy time here ...
Lightning Recovery
... the other teachers in a multi-team league that would pit us one against the other over the series of weeks we would be in China. The best part was that we were right around the corner from the bowling alley. After dinner, we walked there, and met our ...
AZ1 IDEATION
... the land with more functions. Intensity is not that helpful at the stage of data collection. Both of students from Aus and China are still confusing about the site background. Before we generate ideas, I think that we 'd better have some fact rather ...
BX1 Job Communication & Diversity
Diversity and Communication Diversity effects communication in myriad form.Diversity of experience, ethnicity, culture, language, discipline, age and gender make for a wider array of creative ideas to draw upon. Individuals express themselves and their ...
[CX1] Day 1. State Change affecting communication.
... the graphics of his project. Our thoughts and ideas were much clearer and got some new concepts around the construction industry in China. Put ourselves in the place I would say that the most valuable state change exercise we did yesterday was trying and ...
I know who he is - the guy with the white hair!!
Apparently word has spread throughout the US-based teams that I am now here in Dalian for the next 3 months. Some of the feedback has been humorous; especially "oh yes, the guy with the white hair". The fact that I'm even given credit for having hair is a ...
A brief time as the rat king...
[CZ1] Upon being inducted into the Dalian University of Technology (DUT) family, we all were taken out to dine on some of the local cuisine. During the course of the meal, I enquired to one of our hosts as to how my last name (Doig) would be ...
Times Square & Monterrey Dumplings
More to come.... But we are in Dalian, China - on the end of the Northeastern peninsula of China. Overlooking the ocean - where it seems you could row to Korea & sail to Japan. This region is very different. It does not have any temples, or much ...
Dalian part 2
Featured in this entry: -Performances at Dalian University of Technology (DUT) -Photos with some of the kids here Hope everyone is doing great! Hugs, Julia ...