Taishan Hotel
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There are 10 million bicycles in Beijing
... animals anymore.
We jumped into another taxi and went off to the Olympic village and spent several hours wondering around before going back to our hotel and taking advantage of the bar for a couple of hours.
21st September
After breakfast we went in search of fresh supplies from the supermarket in preparation for our train journey and after packing once again took advantage of the hotel bar for a couple of hours.
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Interview with Marc
... an Icelandic who lives in Chapel Hill, a Korean, and a Swiss teenager.
A: Why do you want to learn Mandarin?
M: So that I can speak with my Chinese friends and help them deal with basic things they need to cope with in America, like times, places, stuff like that.
A: Do you that will benefit your law practice?
M: Definitely. I'll be able to better to communicate with my Chinese clients when we're having fun. And ...
A Good Friday
... of 'Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes' to familiarise the children with the names of different body parts. Everybody joined in, including the Head Teacher! We worked with different children throughout the main task who were really eager to practise their English skills with us. At the end of the lesson we played 'Simon Says' and they were much better than we originally thought- practically no children were caught out! A Q&A session then followed, where the ...
Wonderful Beijing to Lhasa Train Ride
... waiting room for passengers from Beijing to Lhasa by train. We spent about half an hour in that crowded waiting room, where we found something interesting that the locals rush towards the door wanting to be first through and about a thousand Chinese and Westerners jostling for position. As a fully ticketed train, we're not quite sure of the benefit of joining the crush, but decide to play along. It took us about one hour to check in for it was really crowded ...
5 a day
... the MuTianYu section a little futher away from town to avoid some of the tourists. WOW as we approached I was just in ore of the wonder we were about to experience. We only had 3 hours so I went up by cable car. (The wall goes along the top of a mountain range) There is only a small section of the wall that is accessible to the public because the rest has not been restored or maintained. The section of the wall we went to had gard houses 20 to ...
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