Li River Yangshuo

... how much and was surprised that the rumors were true it is free.

We had our two open talks tonight one for Hainan students and one for everyone else. None of the Chinese English teachers came. Oh well. But we did have a couple of teachers from the Middle School come. They are from Germany and just graduated from High School and were hired as volunteers to work as English teachers at the public middle/high school here. To say the least ...

... 17th: I have been still looking for people to help at the juice bar. Many of the people from the Open Talk want to help and like I said I think it is going to take a lot of people to keep it open now. I am not sure if the best thing will be to close the Juice Bar and just have the Tutoring Center. I will be interviewing some Chinese teachers today. I have invited a couple to sit in on Dawns classes for the next two days just to see how it works. One of ...

... got some sweet and sour fish and dumplings and fried rice. We were thrown out of the previous restaurant we wanted to sit down in, by an angry Chinese man, because we tried to explain that we want two beers now, and we will order food later. They did not want to understand such a concept, so he angrily pointed to the road and huffed off...
We boarded our train after watching some of the national day celebrations on telly and sped off towards Hong Kong, the city beckoning us to say goodbye to China for now.

... a spiney green melon shaped like a fat cucumber. We can certainly attest to the bitterness of this fruit!

What many tourists do that come to this part of China is float down the Li River on a bamboo raft. We experienced this on our rest day following our 100th day of climbing. What a great way to relax!



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... in feet, I've heard someone say 15 meters before, so 50 ft. But I think that might be a few feet over estimated. How high do you think it was Ryan? One foreigner was too scared to even jump off, but I think I satisfied all the Chinese camera toters with my antics.

We swung back through Yangshuo and made our way towards Puyi. This was another pretty drive, small country roads, curving through the karsts and tiny ...

... would go to a celebration dinner with her that night. And when it popped in my head we nearly panicked and immediately got on the phone to call her. Thankfully we hadn't missed it. This girl, Vivian, is an Omeida student, 17 or 18 years old and from Sichuan province. She recently graduated from high school and made an incredible score on her exam. She ended up with the highest score in the entire province- a 728 ...

... campus and had dinner and when it was time for me to head home, I noticed it was lightly sprinkling. Now is my chance. But as I headed home, I saw how ingenious the bicycle riders are. The guys on motorcycles just wear ponchos but the ladies riding bikes don’t want a poncho, so how about a little umbrella holder for the bike. It seems to work for them.

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... still one of the most interesting streets in Yangshuo constantly changing with new shops all the time. You can get everything from tea to chopsticks from all over china there. You can also find a variety of local items. Scattered among the shops are small bars and cafes with food and drinks from around the world. This was one of the reasons West Street got its name, all the western influence there. Stop in at Kelly's Place ...