Chongqing Haiyi Hotel

... days until she flies back to the U.S. on Oct 18. We’re headed to Juizhaigou (a famous national park in China, known for its different colored pools of water, waterfalls, and cascades) for a few days. I sure am going to miss traveling with my mom. The kids will miss her too.

She took good care of us, getting us around, and keeping us well fed. Now we will have to rely on my lousy Chinese to get us by. Ah well.

... boy'... in society's view any boy will do. The infidelity of Chinese men was also lamented, though I reassured them that this was by no means unique to their homeland! I told them I would try and recruit for them when I get to Australia! And we parted with me greatly appreciating the automatic freedoms granted me by my culture and background.

My other couchsurfing contact, Xiang, is an EFL teacher from the States and lives with ...

... is the only way to
fulfill your life ”, as if anyone with common sense will immediately
sneer at the one who sticks on heliocentric theory. Disciplines
and regulations are made by human beings and complied for numerous
generations. Ironically, mediocre have already put away the reason that
ancestors made those rules. Who did ever say that ghosts are scaring;
and why are scaring? It is really difficult to find the ...

When we got back we immediately needed to transfer to Chongqing which
involved getting into very old little 6 person vans with kamikaze
drivers beeping frantically and playing games of chicken with the
traffic coming the other way. You know how I said their way of driving
isn’t so bad, well I was wrong, and I can’t get used to how impatient
everyone is here they can’t wait 5 seconds for anything or anyone
regardless of ...

... with incomplete episode of Doreamon when I first stepped in primary
school; Yoshito Usui forever postponed subsequent issue of Nowara
Shnnosuke while I am being pushing to the adult world. Walt Disney has
opened a 3-year-old girl’s mind, so that she tentatively began to
explore this world and communicate with every flower, tree, butterfly
and small animal. She lived in harmony with nature, deeply believing
that love is the ultimate theme of the ...

... so peaceful and wonderful. The vegetation flows downhill and touches the water line with no trace of a shore, something that seems quite unusual. The Yangtze River rose 50 meters in 10 days in 2003. This is when many people saw their homes flooded. The older generation has found this process difficult and sad, whereas the younger people have been pleased with the changes. They have received money from the government to relocate. Their new towns are for the most part ...

(Jim) Who lost China? Back in the 1950s, in the era of Joe McCarthy and Joseph Stalin, this was a central question of American politics. In 1949 the Chinese civil war ended with the Communists the decisive victors, and Chaing Kai Shek's Koumintang Nationalists fled to Taiwan. So who lost China? The answer, I think, is that it was the Chinese. Japan invaded China in the late 1930s. It was a brutal conquest, with the rape of Nanking the most ...

Breakfast with yuirgen and Josephine. Told off to springs at 11.00 but at 10.30 they are off....bit like that here. Took bus to town 45 minutes and then got on bus to springs BUT it would not move till all seats taken so we laft after 70 minutes for another 90 minute bumpy and twisty bus journey on very hard seats. Thankfully as part of the trip we were given some hot noodle dish before we got on the waiting bus. Arrived at Springs which was a sort of spa ...

... some of these places. Its an adventure in itself trying to book flights, trains, busses, and hostels when you need a dictionary for every other word. Anyway here is a site about Jiu Zhai Gou: http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attract ion/sichuan/jiuzhaigo u/page1.htm Next week I am traveling with my class to the Yunnan province, which is the trip I have been looking forward to the most. Yunnan province is just north of Laos and ...