Bohai Hotel Dalian
No.124 Zhongshan Road, Zhongshan District Dalian, Liaoning, China
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Mangled
... a local anesthesia. Once I got it, I relaxed - surgery took about 1-1/2 hours. I went home and began my 2 week codeine trip (very unpleasant), somehow managed to get the rest of my classes taught (god bless the McPhee work ethic that can keep me going through anything) and essentially slept. Merry freakin' christmas.
I had to go to the hospital every 3 days and have the thing rewrapped. They put me in this HUGE white bandage around my finger and I ...
Christmas in China!
... I struggled with teaching it to my students at first. I gave them a sheet of song lyrics which many didn't understand and promptly lost. But a few kids asked for the mp3 on USB and were really good at singing it! The chorus to the song is easy, but most kids still didn't know the versus by the end. It was fun singing it the first few times, but then I needed to start choreography. I thought I'd be able to wing it and make up some actions in class, but I am not ...
Stürmische Zeiten
... so charmant aufgefordert wird…, da das für mich bestimmte Glas wohl nicht ganz sauber war, wurde es erst einmal mit Bier aus geschwenkt, nach kurzem Blick nach rechts und links unten, das Bier auf den Boden gekippt (Merke: es handelte sich um Teppichboden, der saugt das auf…), zu meinem Glück hatte der Gute nur 2 Flaschen bestellt; weitere Neugierige gesellen sich zu uns an den Tisch, der Rest verlässt fluchtartig ...
Trip to Dalian
Frühs noch schnell Sachen fertig gepackt und dann Richtung Keyunzhan (Busbahnhof) losgetuckert. An der Toreinfahrt zu unserem Wohnblock stand auch schon ein Taxi parat. Das ist das Schöne an Yingkou: die Taxifahrer prügeln sich fast um einen. Nachdem ich dem Taxifahrer was von „Keyunzhan" vorgestammelt hatte (Hirn war etwas verschlafen) fuhr er mich schweigend zum Busbahnhof. Ich nehme mal an er dachte, ich verstehe nichts, ...
Goodbye Dalian!
... made this experience all the more challenging.
Final consisted of three parts today. Part the first: writing. This was entirely unexpected by me, as I had thought she was only going to give us a speaking test and the song. My Chinese is to the point where I was not terribly troubled by this unexpected turn, especially since we could use PinYin**** when we wanted to. The task was simple: translate 5 English sentences into ...


