Bay Harbor Hotel Dalian
No.3 Gangwan Square, ZhongShan District Dalian, Liaoning, 52116, China
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Mangled
... weeks of the festering abyss that was his swimming pool. I have since cleaned him - the thing might be indestructible.
I have to tell you, I am happy to see the end of 2011 - it wasn't my best year. In Guilin, China last fall, an old gypsy lady gave me the pinky and undoubtedly cursed me (I'm convinced) because I wouldn't give her any money. I like to think I am immune to such things because I am generally an open-hearted person. My mother's ongoing illness, ...
Christmas in China!
... I struggled with teaching it to my students at first. I gave them a sheet of song lyrics which many didn't understand and promptly lost. But a few kids asked for the mp3 on USB and were really good at singing it! The chorus to the song is easy, but most kids still didn't know the versus by the end. It was fun singing it the first few times, but then I needed to start choreography. I thought I'd be able to wing it and make up some actions in class, but I am not ...
Oddities around campus, etc.
... to listen to Gil Santos for the second half via the internet for the MNF opener but that is it :(
Enough about me - strange things around campus.
1. The 10,000 students have only sinks in their rooms. Community toilets. They must have pre-scheduled times to leave the dorms and take their showers in the student center. Yup - they have to leave their dorm buildings to shower. They take their caddies full of shampoo and other toiletries and walk across campus. ...
Stürmische Zeiten
... meine Chance auf ein Mittagsschläfchen sinkt; Karte geht nicht, wieder runter an die Rezeption, Chinesen von gerade eben haben dasselbe Problem, weiter Small-Talk (kann wieder keiner Englisch)
· 13:15: Kaum wieder im Zimmer, klopfts auch schon; Chance auf Mittagsschläfchen verpasst, „Wo ich hin will? Keine Ahnung, kenn mich ja nicht aus. Dann mal ins Taxi eingestiegen, einmal um den Block, wieder ...
Trip to Dalian
... Isst du scharf? Ja. Isst du Rind? Ja. Isst du Schwein? Ja. Gurken? Natürlich …) und ins 6. Stockwerk hochklettern, wurde ich dann vor dem PC geparkt („Schau dir mal die Bilder an.“). Abendessen war echt lecker (siehe Foto). Kaiyuan hatte mir ihr Zimmer abgetreten und nachdem ich den Lärm der Baustelle 200 m weiter dank Ohrenstöpsel ausgeblendet hatte, konnte ich zwischen Spongebob und Pikachu auch recht gut ...



