Asia Hotel Tongzhou

... dance club called Hot Spot. There were a ton of people there, and we met with Jesse (tho old exchange student) and some guys from europe. The clubs are really fun because there are elevated dance areas, and people in China dance rediculously, so we go up there with them and try to copy their off-beat moves. It makes for a really good time! Also, I have slightly improved my table pool skills, which is always a plus.

... We will see if we actually go... On the way back down we explored some side paths and stairs and found some tombstones and amazing views. Back at the bottom we saw a wishing tree, where people write a wish and put it on the tree. The whole thing was plastic with gold leaves, and there were hundreds of thousands of wishes. All in all it was a successful day and I am really glad I got to go. Plaus I got some exercise in!

... check on. We met him at Angels. Basically his factory makes gps systems that track cop radars, traffic signal cameras, and accident areas. The also make home phone systems that are all-inclusive, much like the verizon touch screen home phone. It has a camera monitoring system that calls the homeowner when movement is detected. We saw how the electonic ...

Class was.. different today. The first half we spent "doing homework" that I had already mostly done. So I talked to my group-mates about Chinese words and English words and we started to work on our final slide show. The second half of class Jesse came in. He was a WSU student that went on the China trip 2 years ago and decided to stay in China to teach. He talked to the class about his experiences, and it was in interesting ...

I didn't do much yesterday besides homework, so I didn't bother making an entry. However, after class today we toured a textile factory. It was very interesting to go because I saw for the first time how most of my clothes are literally made. The site had the bottom floor of the textile workers. They were making coats today, some of which are sold to Columbia. There were about 400 workers making about 10 different kinds of ...

... 30 for an hour). I was in the first group of 5 to go, and I was doing really well until I crashed into a wall of tires pretty hard. But I got one of the pastest overall speeds. In the third round, I ran into someone that was at a dead stop and I felt horrible, and the workers told me I was being dangerous, so I decided to stope racing after that. There were about 9 rounds so I did a lot of watching, which was fine. After carting we rounded back up at Angels, then took taxi's to a ...

... cranes with a nuclear power plant visible out of the classroom windows. It wasn't what you'd call postacrd material. The realisation that this was not going to be an easy ride hit my like a baseball bat between the eyes. Fortunatley the hotel where we had been booked in to stay was suprisingly above expectations. With a name like "The Best International Hotel', it would want to be good and while it didn't quite live up to that ...

... poles, e.g. the pole runs through the sleeves of a garment, so no clothespins are needed. Other times there are wooden clothespins, and in a few instances there were fat poles and huge plastic clothespins that fit specially on those fat poles. The air is polluted in Shanghai. My contacts burned the whole time, even inside our stateroom. The air was always hazy, as you can see from our pictures. It was just ...

... really how many licks would it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop?" to "I wonder if I went over to that old sleeping Chinese guy and gave him a "Wet Willy" would he think it was funny?" Oh the madness that a mind can create when you spend countless hours alone with nothing but your thoughts to keep you occupied. I decided the other day that I think the world comes down to 2 distinctly different types of people. There are those people that ...

... rain stopped and sun shone ... briefly. I will hafta say though, that it was lovely flying into Singapore at dawn, as we flew over the bay and could see all the big container ships lit up light Christmas trees. (at one stage there we were so low and on such a sharp turn that i thought we were going to slice on in half!) Anyway ... Singapore is behind me ... on my way to Shanghai.