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Yantai Slideshow
Yantai
Travel Blogs from Yantai, China
June 29th
... use the three public computers in the lobby. And they’re in Korean. There’s a huge Korean population here in Yantai, both as immigrant restaurant workers and students. It’s only about an hour flight and however many hours by boat ...
5 Point Heel Exploding Blister Technique
One of the upsides about being full-blooded Asian is that you look young for, like, ever. One of the downsides is that you're not particularly encouraged to learn social skills until you get to college. For both of these reasons, plus the ...
Christmas Feast
Hey Everyone, Finally, here are some pictures from our Christmas eve feast and festivities. We have lots of fun videos to post, but they're taking way too long right now. We'll try again this weekend when we're in Yantai. ...
Yantai (Smoke Tower0
Not much to say about this town, other than the fact people here are extremely friendly. It sort of reminded us of Chiang Mai. Click for pictures: ...
July 12th
Today was interesting and vaguely stressful…but first, the weekdays! Gamble and I figured out what to do about the mosquitoes. We grabbed our shoes (I grabbed her sandals and she had her slippers-why would I want dead bug guts on my shoes?) ...
Video: Tristan's first form
Tristan is practicing his first form. He won't be grading (testing) on it until the new year, so it's still a work in progress! His master is watching with a spear in hand. If the students don't do well, he sometimes whack them with it -- depending on ...
Everybody was Kung Fu fighting
The main product of shaolin training is ability in forms. That is doing specific combat movements using certain techniques and trying to make them look good. They pretty much always looked good when the masters did them obviously but it was a lot harder ...
Kun Yu Shan becomes Dawn of the Dead
The way it worked in our academy as it got colder was that nothing would be done about it until it became November 17th. I do not know why they chose this date but that is what they announced. They would start shoveling coal on that day, no earlier, no ...
Winter Wonderland
... ). One of the first attractions we encounter is the former US Consulate, which is now a museum reflecting the history of Yantai- emphasizing the imperial period when Europe and America had manifest destiny ideas. The snow laden trees and landscape are ...
July 18th
Had a test today. I think it went very well. I’m never the first one to walk out of a test, most especially not a Chinese test so it was a rare and unlikely to happen again pleasant feeling. In fact, it almost compensates for the fact that I ...
Small training hall
Here are some pictures of the small training hall where I spend most of my time. I just realized that it may be hard to see some of the pictures here... just scroll down and they're at the bottom of the page. And don't forget that you can add comments!! ...
Team Buiding
... four and the bus delivered us to a restaurant back in our suburb (Kaifaqu) to celebrate Teacher's Day - a national celebration in China. I had a few much needed cold beers and chatted with Lucy and Natasha. I was SO sunburnt and exhausted that I couldn't ...
A new guitar!
Sunday 23rd AugustAs expected, we have been granted a few weeks of extra holiday by the construction gods. We have spent this time wisely, drinking the local beer and wine, playing guitar, venturing out to Chinese Karaoke (they call it KTV) and of ...
July 28th
I think we must have eaten something bad last night. Today found me throwing up in the wee hours of the morning, a different student with a bad stomach ache, and another needing to frequent the bathroom all day. I thought I was sick the first week ...
Tristan's Training Update
This week we did a bunch of Sanda, which is Chinese kick-boxing, and some appliable self-defense. The first day we did Sanda we worked on a bunch of kicks, working on getting our knees higher and turning kicks to the head, and it sucked because I had to ...
Carols at Parkson’s and planning for Harbin
We’ve had a great weekend… I began to feel alot better by the end of last week – not even sure why. Its been SO hard for almost a month now, but the cloud has lifted We went downtown to do some shopping for our trip to ...
Farewell My Kunyu Shan
... were a bunch of dirt farmers. After 2 months on the Shan, I sorta see where he's coming from: I'm pretty sick of China, or more precisely the bass-ackwards Chinese, with their shirts pulled up over their belly and emphysemic levels of hawking up phlegm ...
SNOW!!!!
Perhaps Marcie and I are the most excited people here. We woke this morning to a howling wind and a beautiful thick blanket of white on everything. Walking to school was quite perilous and Marcie and I have begin to question the appropriateness of ...