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Travel Blogs from Dalian
Halloween China Style
Halloween blog So this year I celebrated Halloween early. On Friday I hosted a sort of Halloween party for my high school age English students. It was a lot of fun. Everyone brought food and many of the students dressed up like I asked them to. I think they dressed up simply because I threatened to draw a cat nose and whiskers in eye liner on anyone who forgot. Let's just say we had three people in black cat "costumes" that they hadn't planned on ...
我在中国生活
... lunch sometimes I play guitar, sometimes I wash clothes (by hand), and sometimes I browse the internet. In the afternoon my Italian friends and I used study at our favorite cafe, but now that cafe is closed. Now we go to a classroom to study. In the evening we usually go to a restaurant to eat dinner; we all think Chinese food is delicious! After dinner sometimes we go to a bar, or sometimes we hang out in somebody's room. I think every day ...
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 apparently scared of the strange white teacher. It turns out that my "big eyes" scare her. I usually think of my big eyes as my best feature, but apparently they are terrifying to ...
What I've Been Learning
... to believe that I could be the one to awaken hearts to the desire for the One whose image they bear. But I think I was more concerned about people having the same perspective of life as me than their hearts being awakened. And that's just lame. I was Reading last week and was reminded our command is simply “Love with all your heart.” I'm becoming more and more convinced that one of the greatest act of Love we ...
A police escort
... respite from the city. We now know where the aquarium and zoo are located too. One of my favorite parts of the day came when he showed us the old Russian architecture in comparison to the Japanese architecture. There is a street in town with a number of old Russian buildings from when Russia occupied Dalian. At the end of the main Russian streets is a completely abandoned palacial building that got both Anthony and my creative ...