Anshan Hotel
29 South Shengli Road, Tiedong District Anshan, Liaoning, 114001, China
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Ripped off from here to eternity
... in sight. "Are you getting off or not?" demanded the bus driver. Clearly the driver had a deal with the two taxi drivers waiting in the desolate area just off the freeway, and we weren't the only ones taken advantage of. What frustrates me at times, though, is that I've seen plenty of Chinese people just accept being cheated. I once had a student tell me about paying 100 kuai to play a dumb dart balloon game (like at the ...
Sniffles and Tears
... book on Obama, a Clay High School yearbook, and a Clay Colonial blanket. Wang Yue, our event organizer, had a difficult time getting us out of the room and on to dinner. We had hot pot for dinner. Sarah got squeamish over the live shrimp being boiled alive, but everyone else enjoyed. The adult table of Chinese principals and staff would normally have had beer, but in deference to our custom of not having alcohol at school activities, they drank water. Tomorrow off to ...
School visit
... and I played table tennis with our hosts. Later, I taught an English class on common pronunciation mistakes. At the end of the day, we had a cultural exchange. We had been warned ahead of time to prepare a performance, so we sang Frere Jacques in four languages including Chinese. Aaron and Katie both sang solos. We sang the school song and taught the Colonial ...
Sightseeing Day
... students were exposed to their first round of toasts. The adults toasted to friendship and hospitality, paying honor to each other for bringing and allowing the students to come to China. In the afternoon, we toured the Jade Buddha garden in Anshan. It holds the largest Jade Buddha in the world, carved out of one piece of jade. Students enjoyed this tour, and we coincidentally ran into the Discovery group. The younger students were excited to see their American co-travelers, ...
Needle in my nose!
... point of today's lecture class....Yesterday I had a headache. A very uncomfortable sinus headache, wear laying down hurts but standing up or moving around is ten times worse. One of those headaches where medicine doesn't really help and all you can really do is lie around all day and try to move as little as possible. Needless to say I didn't really feel up to dinner with the family. So I called the house and told Shuang Shuang I had a ...


