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Dalian Slideshow
Dalian
Travel Blogs from Dalian, China
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ferry to Dalian
... . The hotel has a revolving restaurant on the top floor, so we will be spending our evening there drinking beer.Our impression of Dalian is pretty limited at the moment. The ferry arrived at Dalian port and we were all ushered onto a waiting bus to take ...
Mangled
... every 3 days and have the thing rewrapped. They put me in this HUGE white bandage around my finger and I basically walked around China for 4 weeks giving everyone the bird. The pin was removed 3 days ago, I have no pain (though I know the fingertip is ...
WELCOME / AGENDA
... of Technology to partake in an intensive 5-day workshop in which we will explore the future of an inner city mine in Dalian. There are twelve Entrepreneurship Lab members from u.lab and three staff. THE WORKSHOP THEME: CO-OPOLIS Rapid ...
Long Haul to Liaoning
... gas thingy to the plane so it can refuel) class where they would choose to live, if they could live anywhere in China. One of my students said Dalian, because it is clean, modern, beautiful and by the sea. People I asked about Dalian since have all given ...
Chingway Elbows
Today was our first day at school in class. The blocks are A-I, and have 8 on Monday, and 7 every other day. This gives each block 4 classes a week. Today we started with a spare, then Block H Socials 11. We started by introducing a little bit about ...