Century Shijiazhuang
No.145 Zhongshan West Road Shijiazhuang, Hebei, 050051, China
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Beijing!
... Friend has not that. Thank you." And so began the day of the most atrocious abuse of the Chinese language Beijing has ever witnessed.
The metro journey (€0.20) turned out to be hilarious as I told Sunny my Chinese name, which, admittedly, I got off a translation website and never had clarified. She burst out laughing, "Your name means, Summer Camel," she choked out. Great, I'm a bloody camel! How did that happen?! Tears rolling down my face, I managed to splutter out, ...
Sunday, Monday, Happy Days...
... have finally climbed the Great Firewall of China. I was laughing gleefully (and somewhat hysterically I imagine) at my familiar online world as it was so nice to see what everyone'd been up to. Nothing much has changed though since I was last online in Qatar but that's not the point. It also means I can keep in contact with people a bit easier now as not everyone likes Skype the way I do.
"You have 843 notifications."
(Not...)
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My First Day of School
... in the case of an emergency. (It might have been used before in this city, it wouldn't surprise me.)
So there I was, balancing desperately with little red hammer in hand while the bus swerved around pedestrians and oncoming traffic. Of course, everyone noticed and I had to sit through eight stops, the only white-skinned, red-faced, red-hammered English-Irish girl in Shijiazhuang. I wouldn't mind, but I tried to put it back and for a few minutes it stuck fast and ...
Heating-up Party
Unsere erste - und wohl auch einzige - Party fand am 19. November statt. Zu Ehren des offiziellen Anstellens der Heizung. Die Vorbereitungen dazu waren nicht ganz ohne... 120 Flaschen Bier (das hat man davon wenn man Schotten, Australier und Franzosen einlädt) mussten vom Supermarkt zum Wohnblock und danach in den 6. Stock gehievt werden. Zum ...
Qingdao Bound, Round 2
... knew something was wrong. The lady then told us that we could catch a flight on Saturday, which I right away said, "NO." I was not going to spend $250 on a flight to spend less than 24 hours in Qingdao. They refunded our money and I hung up the phone thinking, “What a great way to start our weekend.”
We slowly trudged our way back to our dorm room with our heads hung down. Within moments, Michael and his ...



