City Home Hotel Beijing

... vodka... pour tse eviter que leur soiree soit deficitaire. Pis la on me sert un osttttiiiiii (desoler pour le sacrage) de calisse (oops encore) de mautadine (limite...) de gros verre de vodka russe. Avec du tabasco.

On appelle ca etablir des relations. Ce soir je m'arrange pour amener l'auberge en entier la-bas, pis Marcaliss qui arrive en avion... DANS 4 HEURES. Regardez les nouvelles c'est sur qu'on apparait dans le journal de montreal. Un melange de Awesome et de ...

... Chinese food, or Chinese versions of western products, so the only food I actually recognised was Whiskas. I got a few supplies, however and made it back to Huixinxijie Nankou (which I may have told you earlier was Huixinxijie Beikou, but it's not, actually), where Ying informed me that Tiantongyuan is basically Beijing's equivalent of Castleknock or Drumcondra. I ate Tuc and President Cheese, some chocolate chip biscuits, and a few eclairs I'd saved from Marks & Spencers in ...

... feet walking for about 5 hours plus between the Olymic Stuff and the Palace and were ready to head home around 4:45. The Summer Palace is out by the 5th ring road of MASSSIVE Beijing. I mean this town is huge! Mary suggested we take the public bus back to the center of town for "the experience," and because it was 1 yuan apiece, and we'd spent around 100 on cabs to get up town. Now, to be fair, even 100 yuan split 3 ways is not very much, but ...

... vi ud med efter en omgang nudler og kaffe i den lokale museumsshop. Det var godt nok et flot og kæmpe stort anlæg, som befandt sig langt under jorden. Et helt underjordisk palads. Det var tømt for skatte, men der var tro kopier af de kister, som gravens ejermænd, en kejser og hans to kejserinder havde ligget i samt deres mange skattekister. Der var også et flot anlæg over jorden, men det kunne slet ikke måle sig med det underjordiske palads. Vi tog herefter en ...

... dirt-cheap labour**s at its disposal. The Chinese are not "free", but outside Tibet - and with a few oth** high-profile exceptions - they wear their oppression lightly. I detected no great clamour for democracy at this stage in the country's development. Security and prosp**ity come high** on most people's wish list. On that score the regime has deliv**ed spectacularly, with 400 million Chinese lifted from pov**ty in the past 30 years and consistent double ...

... to our room in the afternoon for a nap. the next day we got up and went to the great wall. this was a long day but worth it all. we had a bus to jinshan gates which is in the next province. hiking up to the wall itself is a reminder of how much muscle mass we have lost on this journey. riding a bus or train is not a great way to stay in shape. i can only console myself with how bad it would be if we had not been in such good shape when we left. between huffs and puffs ...

... head back to volunteering at the Rural Women's Association. I'm looking forward to it, they're a fun group of people. I hope to talk to the manager too about some research I'm doing on women in China. Should be interesting. That's about all the updates I have for now it seems. The other day I was walking to class and saw two Westerners standing in the parking lot with some camera equipment. I stared at the as I walked by and ...

... websites estan vetadas y las calles estan llenas de oficiales. Se puese sentir la falta de libertad y la manera en la que se maneja a la gente para que no piensen mucho. Hay incluso hoteles designados para turistas con carteles fuera ("Aceptamos extranjeros"). Y en nuestras excursiones siempre debemos llevar a un guia local chino. Fuimos a Tiananmen Square donde miles de personas pasean entre jardines ...

... litter in Beijing anywhere we went. We bid farewell to Chi at the end of our tour day on Sunday. He was a great fellow, mild natured, with a great sense of humor and quite knowledgeable without being overbearing. If you ever find yourself planning a stay in Beijing, let me know as I have his business card for future reference! At his recommendation, we went for Peking Duck that evening for dinner. I suppose no trip to Beijing is complete ...

... and I have become used to assuming the squatposition-fearful we will neva again be able to use a western toilet and I have learnt that washing and styling ones hair is not the be all and end all to life itself-although I have painted my nails-twice. We have been inspired by not only the places we have been lucky enough to see, enlightened by the food we have had to eat (eat it, or-well-starve)as well as learning So much from our ...