Bohai Pearl Hotel Dalian

... maybe Canada. He worked for a guy but the guy stole his recipes and Eddie left. Then he came back and opened "The real Eddies" Not sure if all that is correct but hopefully it is close. I guess there is another restaurant in Kai fa qu called "Eddies" Anyway, he serves western food and has a delicious bakery. I had some of the chocolate chip cookies. They were tasty. <br><br>Again, back to the story, we went to ...

I have decided that I am going to roast once I get back to south Texas. Hot in Dalian, China is 90 degrees and that is long gone here. I hope I am still acclimated to real hot weather because I haven't felt hot here. Sure I get a little sweaty walking home but not like in Harlingen. Also, fall must be coming because the mornings and evenings have been cool. I almost thought about pulling out my long sleeve shirt the other day but knew it would warm up. Plus, my roommate would strangle me ...

... unprovoked daily phone call from a massuer (prostitute) offering her services. Every Caucasian I saw in the city seemed to be from Russia, perhaps unsurprisingly given its proximity. I have to say that most of the Russian men almost looked like caricatures of masculinity. Evidently I don't look like this: one taxi driver immediately identified me as a Briton (which is itself unusual, as I'm usually assumed to be American). <br><br ...

... for me. She replied that if I did that I might lose my booking. I hung up, muttering to myself "and what a bloody great shame that would be!" The people hanging out by our gate looked at me wide-eyed in disbelief. I assume this was because of the whole &#8220;foreigner speaking Chinese on telephone&#8221; thing rather than the &#8220;foreigner completely losing her cool in public&#8221; thing, but I could be mistaken.<br><br>Take off from Ningbo was delayed yet ...

... come up with the most accurate adjectives... like a little kids room, meets misprinted fabrics, meets dim lighting and an attempt at cozy. We stepped in and I howled with laughter.<br><br>On the two little cots that were side by side, lay little cotton pjs, which we changed into and waited for our masseuse. When the gentlemen came in, they introduced themselves and started by placing warm pillows on our stomachs and ...

... and got the price down to Y60. So we agreed, and the shop keeper started running around to gather them all up.<br><br>All the places around us were closing, so we felt relieved and accomplished that we were getting the shirts. We had to open each one individually, because many of the first ones he gave us were navy blue, not black, so we had to keep a close eye on him.<br><br>Once all fifteen were amassed, we handed over the money&#8212;and he started ...

... time. <br><br>But, to accurately demonstrate the era we were teaching&#8212;The Stock Market Crash of '29&#8212;suddenly the stocks started to drop, and of course the banker recalls all the loans... Still more frantic trading and the prices keep falling. The game ends when stocks are worthless, people have been cleaned out by the bank, and thus the discussion begins.<br><br>Who says that there is no capitalism in China? The students&#8217; awareness of the emotions ...

... 480 feet long, 180 feet wide with sails of red silk. At it¡¯s finest hour, when the ship was employed to return some of the 26,000 foreign diplomats who attended the inauguration of the Forbidden City in Beijing in February 1421, it sailed with a fleet of 100 other ships and crews of about 30,000 sailors, accompanied by another few hundred private commercial ships making hay under the umbrella of the flotilla. This was one of 5 of emperor Zhu Di¡¯s fleets ...

... today that had a few 5 gallon buckets around it. Last week I saw a guy welding without eye protection! With the labor advantage, construction is a different industry. You'd never see a nail gun here, for example. It's not a matter of speed because rather than invest in expensive machines that use more energy to increase production, just hire 2 or 3 more nailers. And you certainly would not hear the nailers complain that it would be easier with a ...

The Iron Cube and The Wooden Ball - Reflections On China's Educational System China's educational system, metaphorically speaking, is like an iron cube. Like the edges of a cube, their education is straightforward and unbending. The teachers teach, students listen. In the classroom, a teacher's instruction is cold and heavy. Cold because teachers do not spend time nurturing their students but rather streamline information to them. Heavy because the ...