Haosen Fudi Mansion Hotel Qingdao

... views are spectacular, and somehow it also has the glimse of lifestyle from a big city. Thus to say, mixture of everything.

Definitely worth the visit, and the coldness...


Hightlights of visits:
. The Protestant Church(基督教堂 )
. Jiaozhou Governor's Hall (提督府), office building of former German governors [Gouverneurspalast] and former municipal government

... down the hills, we finally settled on a slightly outward hill...it's only 3:30pm and the sun is already preparing for the day-off......Point to note for the sunset fans, you gotta start early for that in Qing Dao. By 4:30pm the whole sunset process is done and we went for some city sightseeing, christmas trees and decos are all around already, nice lights there.

... 26041;知郤原來 ; / 不必盼蓬萊 ; / 已是埋藏心 ;內 / 蓬萊就是愛 ;
Listen to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N9TxBTq -wQ


Highlights of visit:
. Penglai Tourism-Vacation Area (蓬莱旅游ॷ 0;假区)
. Penglai ge (蓬莱阁)
. The Eight Immortals (八仙)

... belts and feeding through the machines. Minimal manpowers.

We spent pretty much the entire afternoon on the coach. A funny incident, as we are all getting into deep naps during the bus trip, suddenly I was woke up by intensive heat, like burning fire, really hot-like-hell, it's winter and I can't get rid of any more clothes from my body ...

... br>. The twin-spired St Michael's Cathedral, (天主教堂), one piece of the famous Neo-romanesque architecture in Qingdao, designed by German architect Alfred Fräbel, completed in 1934[9]
Flower-floor (花石楼), the place for previous German governors to fish, hunt or rest.
. Xiao Yu Shan (Little Fish Hill, 小鱼山)
. Residences of famous ...

... industries were heavily pursued. But like the first batch of overseas listed companies, when the slowdown of China's economy threw many infrastructure builders into losses, the second wave shrank. At the end of 1996, red chips began to lead the third wave. Red chips are mainland firms registered and listed overseas. These companies are mainly listed in Hong Kong and via American depositary receipts, their securities can be traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Some include ...

... fortunately, and cooked. they taste and crunch like popcorn. we saw them in chinese medicine stores too. they are probably for something like ED or incontinence, which would explain their laughter. we shrug and smile, and carry on. the next day, the streets are full of people. what happened? turns out it is tomb sweeping day or qing ming jie. sort of like all saints day. people go to the graves and burn paper money and food for the ghosts and clean off ...

... nice'. In fact this total lack of English in Qingdao leads to the incredibly amusing shirts I have seen on my travels. Whilst noone seems to speak the language - it is still tres cool to wear the language and so every person between 0 and 35yrs of age wears shirts emblazoned with rampant, unintelligible English words: 'Rock in fashion: Don't be scared'. Every tenth shirt actually makes some sense so you'll see a 20something boy proudly wearing ...

... our Oral English class). They aren't given syllabi because the teachers can't prepare them because the administration doesn't decide when the days off will be until later or what the tests are to be like until a couple weeks beforehand. Much of everything here is on the fly. And that's the way Natalie and I have learned to teach: off the cuff, improv. We've learned to be entertainers, comedians, clowns, babysitters, and disciplinarians. We've learned that even though the kids, our ...

... And blue skies too...finally, a place of supreme environmental beauty (severely lacking in China). Below us the luge snaked down the mountain. Most riders were going pretty slow, we decided that it wasn't worth the money to ride a slow, yet potentially dangerous luge. At the top, the Wall abruptly greeted us in 25 foot enormity. Thick grey rectangled stones mortared together with a mixture of lime and glutinous rice stand imposing against the beautiful mountain scene on either ...