Bay Harbor Hotel Dalian

... meal cost 32 yuan. When I compare it to American prices, it is less than $5 so I should be fine with that. But to compare it to China meal prices it is quite expensive.<br><br>As a bonus I am adding some KFC pictures. This is taken in Dalian and my western friends call it the KFC church. Because ... it looks like a Church. None of the others look like this one. So, I wanted to share it with you. Enjoy...<br><br><br>

... make it back to the apartment safely. I was a little more daring on the last part of the ride and actually followed the traffic in a left turn lane. I parked the bike and can check that activity off my list. I rode a bike in China. For the short time I have left here, I do think that I will stick to walking.<br><br>Things have warmed up a bit from those few days. It is still very pleasant for me but not as cool as it was then. I hope you enjoy the pictures from that interesting bike ride.

... to make me burst some internal organs. It was starting to bulge in an unseemly manner having acquired about 4 fat books, cds, a pair of high heels, a handbag and fluffy Australian animal toys for Tie Shifu's daughters (care of my Mum). After the burst zipper incident at Huashan, I decided emergency offloading was necessary. I found a China Post (not difficult since they are just about everywhere in most Chinese cities, just like China Mobile, unless of course you are ...

... of little busses parked here and there and I am sure they thought I was a crazy Westerner out jogging up a hill. But with those thoughts pushed to the back of my mind I made my way up the hill getting closer and closer to the bull. Finally I came to a staircase and followed that up to the platform with the bull. I don&#8217;t know what is sitting on its back but I am sure it is explained on the base of the statue &#8211; In ...

... our faces, necks and shoulders. It was heaven.<br><br>It wasn&#8217;t until he started moving to my arms, that I realized that my masseuse may be blind, as he had to 'look&#8217; around with his fingers to find the part of my arm he was looking for. At one other point, when he started to massage my arm, he let my hand fall in his lap&#8212;and I instantly tensed&#8212;not because I was in an inappropriate place, but more ...

... br><br>He picked up his calculator and typed in 60 x 15... he wanted Y60 PER shirt, not total. The Y900 was more than our entire t-shirt and printing budget, the other student had gotten the first 30 shirts for less than Y180, I was mad. We tried our best to argue that we had agreed to Y60 we were even willing to pay a little more, but to absolutely no avail, and we ended up walking away empty handed. Here I thought I was good at negotiating.<br><br>~Ashley<br><br>

It is Heidi first full day of teaching, and we are launching our Stock Market Game. The premise is simple, randomly handout six cards to every student that is either $100 or a stock (A,B,C,D) explain to them the goal of the game is to amass the most wealth that they can. It works best with two people, because one person can be in charge of randomly changing the price of stocks (all going up) and the other can be the bank, loaning out $1000 for every $100 of insurance ...

... to make Dalian their ice free Pacific port. The port didn't work out, but the planning resulted in several wonderful public spaces. 22. Royal Tombs in Nanjing, Beijing and Shenyang. Architectural masterpieces as tributes to the Ming and Qing Emperors ...

... 100 meters long and 2 meters deep. All done by hand, including the paving. There are several very active pedestrian streets. Russian Street, near the original shipping docks, is famous all over Asia as the center of Dalian's Russian occupation which started in 1898. The occupation lasted only about 6 years, but they built a City Hall, hospital and performance hall as well as several nice late Victorian commercial structures that ...

Back in Dalian, I got some terrible news last night from my Dad. Our dog cassie died last week on the 5th of February. I knew she had been sick but i was not ready for the news. I feel terrible. I'll never get to see her again, i thought she'd be still as frisky as ever when i got home in a few months. She had a tumour on her neck that was growing rapidly. She died at ...