Bay Shore Hotel Dalian

... jackets are IN too! Find the puffiest, brightest, shiniest jacket ever to be cool. But its even better if its bright purple! In Dalian, purple is the hottest color right now, your nothing without purple in your wardrobe!!

Fur! Fur is so hot right now. If your not wearing your puffy shinny jacket, your wearing the mangiest, ugliest colored fur you can find! Make sure ...

... tortilla chips with the meal. The enchiladas were pretty good.

Now part of the reason I don't eat western food is the price. Let me give you an example. On my way home from school I have found two places where I especially like to eat. I can get a bowl of noodles in hot soup for 6 yuan. Or I can stop at the kiosk and get a serving of fried rice or fried noodles for 3 - 5 yuan. Remember 7 yuan = $1. My ...

... and cars whizzing past you in both directions and then continuing on when a lane opened up. But I never had the nerve to try it on a bike. For some reason Kai fa qu seems a little less chaotic with driving practices. Maybe it is because there are fewer motorcycles. Maybe it is because I am more used to the driving. I don’t know, but I felt that I could safely ride a bicycle to the beach. BUT, it didn’t take long for reality to set in and fear started to grip me. Cars ...

... hour. When I arrived at Dalian, I called the hotel (the only reason I even bothered was because Dalian is very busy in summer and the hotels there are expensive). A much nicer woman than last time said they were full and my booking seemed to have been cancelled at 18:00pm. In some ways relieved, I walked over to the airport information desk and booked a hotel room. It was cheaper than the one I’d booked online and the information desk worker even walked me over ...

... of the owner, who is also the school’s librarian, told us how long it took him to teach the local bakery to make real hamburger buns, both in shape and taste—they couldn’t understand why he didn’t want sugar in the recipe like their sweet buns.

It is amazing what kind of impact ‘comfort’ food can have when you are travelling, or away from home.

Yum... cheese.

~Ashley

... I felt more at home. So I tried to encourage them to think about design, what they want the t-shirt to say, or represent... I drew an example on the board of a simple combination of ‘E’ and ‘A’ and that was it, they were sold. I would have changed things around and been a little more creative if I knew I was suggesting ideas rather than suggesting examples... Oh well. Next challenge, teach the students how to use InDesign from scratch in ...

... in that first class was the super smart student who always has all the right answers in class. He was so dejected by not having all the rules, and not succeeding like some of the other students, but it was fun to tease and use him as an example of the many proud people who were left to fend for their lives in any way they could.

I think it was a great lesson. And we successfully repeated it many more times throughout the day, and in other classes...

Ashley

... I forced them all to say "trick or treat!" in order to get candy. here are some of my favorites: (oh and these are letter by letter word for word) "on that day. the peopel can wear the white clothes and the chidren can say "give me some suger "on that day i like playing computer games. because i can have the present in the computer" "in this year's Halloween. I got a candy from English teacher" (this one is my absolute ...

... various kinds of raw materials. The round-bottomed frying pan is cleaned and boiled hotly, put the wide oil, it is familiar to burn to 30%, slip and turn on shrimp chips , spoon under the sliced fish gently , pull out. Keep on file the oil in the spoon, put the spring onions , ginger and fry the pan at the end , add into fresh soup and other various kinds of raw materials, wait to be boiled, put and continue the wine , white sugar ...

... and I kicked some ass on the track. I would have won my heat but this other teacher swerved and cut me off as I was going around the corner. My front wheel hit her rear wheel and my go-kart went up and clunk came straight down. (Don't worry Mom, I had a helmet on....ummmm maybe now's not a good time to mention that all the helmets were too big and by that ...