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Dalian Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Dalian, China
Sorry Boss, my Chinese ain't too good.
对不起 老板， 我的汉语 不太好。 This sentence, literally means "Sorry Boss, my Mandarin isn't very good." Street vendors and storekeepers are very quick to ...
Back to school
Okay, first real post in a while. Arrived in Dalian, which is like the Chinese equivalent to Malibu. If Malibu, in addition to being a tourist spot was one of the world's largest ports, full of coal fired power plants, and totally devoid of ...
CO-OPOLIS Workshop in Dalian - Day 4
The majority of day 4 of the CO-OPOLIS workshop was spent at DUT, where the teams continued to develop their proposal. However, the morning was broken up by a lecture from Architect Chui Yan, who's company designed the new conference center currently ...
DAY 1 in Dalian
... other, form groups, practice design exercise as groups all happened in one morning, and followed with bus tour to the down-town Dalian. When we were given left 10 minutes for preparing presentation for a day in the evening session it was a challenge ...
Trip to Dalian
... ich dachte in Dalian an und weil ich keine Ahnung hatte wo man sich am besten trifft, habe ich Kaiyuan (Bekannte in Dalian) KFC vorgeschlagen. Konnte in der näheren Umgebung glückicherweise nur diesen einen ausmachen. Sonntag KFC = schlechte Idee. Als ...
Finally to Lushun, where foreigners aren't allowed
... . Also to a couple of local history museums where there were pre-historic articles from 7000 BC that were discovered near Wafangdian. Lunch at a seafood place very close to the water, then back to Dalian for a rest! Dinner at the Swissotel ...
BY1 I feel so boring when I don't use my language
My Findings One factor affecting diversity in my team is age. Most of my team mates are between 20 to 23 years, they don't have work experience and most of their findings focus indetails, leaving the overall thinking aside. One example would ...
Technically not a Planet
... to work-but not for long as we took a break to walk to the local "beach" at the end of the day. Jinjitan, north of Dalian where the school is located, is supposed to have nice beaches, but they are always harder to appreciate in the winter. The place is ...
Dalian - milan of china???
... featured greatly in some pictures we used for our Dalian project last semester which was especially heartwarming! First impressions of Dalian was rather mixed as it was a little smoggy/foggy which differed greatly from the previous impression of Dalian ...
Sirens in the morning
This morning I woke up to the sound of quite air sirens. I started out of bed and went to look out my window to see what was going on. I noted that no one was looking out the windows or running in panic, before the sirens quickly stopped. I later found ...
Homecoming
... this song, nor like this one--though they all come to mind whenever I think of the phrase. It was really great to get back. Not that this trip was without greatness--but after all that cheating, it's good to get back to the most livable city in China. ...
China vs. Korea and thoughts on life...
... . That's right. It was like delivery pizza, except you get a big mac do your door in 20 minutes with no tipping. At least China also has no tipping. I just had a conversation with my friend about how most people can be sorted into six categories of time ...
Where did that "bar cum from"
... and this guy probably can't read that. It probably a good thing Molly wasn't there to see him. A number of us went to Dalian Maritime University on Saturday for a long session of badminton. I'm pleased to report the troops were surprised that I knew how ...
CO-OPOLIS Workshop in Dalian - Day 2
First up on the agenda for Day 2 of the CO-OPOLIS Workshop was team time for the groups to share background information on the site and begin to ideate. A couple of hours later, to re-energize the session as well as help the teams begin ...
A Day at the Beach
... our part of dalian，to a different part of Dalian*, which is much more modern and developed. It is in fact called "Dalian Special Development Zone." It is clean, modern, and populated by foreign businesses. It is full of aspirational ads ...
Daaaah-Liyen
Chris and I decided to come visit our fellow REUers in Dalian. I can't remember what the school is called. We flew in Friday and while walking around the mall trying to find a place to eat, a girl named Irenie (3 syllables) asked if she ...
Mystery Meat
Today I had my first run in with mystery meat... I knew it was coming, but I stopped paying attention, and bam! I got caught off guard. The cafeteria is a large building, with many options, but today I was in a hurry, and I hadn't beaten the rush. All my ...
Seaside trip
Gorden left us on June 2nd. He had to go back to work in Munich. We decided to meditate for him on a beach. An old ferry boat (German: "soul seller") brought us to a city called ...
I'm Totally Better at Humility Than You
... a lot of ways. It was perhaps a 45 minute bus (well, coach) ride away from our university, a ways into more rural Dalian. This was my first glimpse of anything resembling the Chinese countryside. As we were travelling to the temple, we passed ...
汉语 博客文章
... ; 尹波 Hello my readers! I felt like writing a blog post in Chinese today. China is very big and interesting. I study Chinese in Dalian at "Dongbei University of Finance and Economics." Today I cleaned my dorm and now am studying ...
Bright Lights, Big City, Or: "GINTONIC!"
... . After my post on economics, perhaps it's time to be a little more free-form. The club we went to is in Downtown Dalian. This part of town is on a par with any American city in terms of wildly flashing lights throwing photons into the night. It was ...
THE BLOG STRUCTURE
... innovation. u.lab is on a mission to experiment and lead in this area of innovation. FACTORS This week in Dalian, we are testing how three Factors influence collective creativity: Intensity, Diversity, and State-change. Each day, your blog ...
Preoccupied with food
I was lucky enough to wake up this morning and have a chance to listen to some of the Canucks game. Yeah internet! It was the first time in almost two weeks that I could cheer on my team. But it didn't last long because today is shopping day. The ...
Great Train Ticket Story
... using the Starbucks wifi! Anyways, now for the "good story" part of this blog. Buying a train ticket in Dalian, China story In China, train tickets go on sale 10 days prior to the actual travel time the ...
Last few days in Shanghai; first night in Dalian
... Thailand Restaurant in Shanghai! -Pictures from our concert at Jinzi Village -Pictures from my first night at the children's village in Dalian The kids here at the children's village are really amazing. For all of them, one or both of their parents are ...
Two bits and a haircut...
... fast, so if it goes 'wrong', I am quick to recover... These truths lead me to decide that cutting my hair in China was a good idea. My long hair was becoming bothersome, tiresome, and the cold wind whipping it around prevented any sort of style beyond ...
dalian
... auto....dann passt das...und schreib mir ne mail oder email addy ins guestbook wenn du mehr infos wilst. 16.07.04, Dalian ok, weiter gehts.... aerzte sind totaler schwachsinn...das ist fast immer und ueberall so.... vampyre in weiss auf der ewigen ...
The Buddhist Temple
Several weeks ago (Labor Day, May 1 here and much of the Asia-Pacific rim), my driver Aaron took me out into the countryside to see a very impressive Buddhist temple. It was a very beautiful early spring day and to that point it was my first time ...