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Cui Yuan Hotel Zhanjiang

No.124 Minzhi Road, Xiashan District Zhanjiang, Guangdong, 524000, China

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A Day in the Life of: A Beijing Opera Singer

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... stage, and just like that it was over. It all happened very fast, I heard the music start and then the next thing I know, we hurried on stage and in maybe 2 minutes it was done. My first thought was "I must get this itchy makeup off". This proved to be hard. For as long as I can remember, I have thought about how fun and enjoyable it would be to be white, but no one told me it would require tons of soap, water and scrubbing supplies to ...

Trick or Treat, give me some Chinese food to eat

A travel blog entry by lailasa

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When I was a child, I fondly remember Halloweens bobbing for apples, tricking or treating for UNICEF, picking out costumes that my mother and her siblings wore on Halloween pasts. I remember wearing layers and going door to door in Maple St. In Bangor. Now, fast forward years later, in Shenzhen I have left my own children (that is students) with one memory: Little girls crying as I show them pictures of zombies, ghosts and haunted ...

Weekend fun!

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... we went to this amazing vegetarian place. The dishes kept coming, fake chicken, lamb, beef, soups, spicy dishes, noodles, endless amounts of food and tea. I could only understand a few worlds of their conversations, and in fact apparently they were saying that Greg and I looked alike, which tells me either A) all foreigners look alike B)All vegetarians look alike or C) I have turned white since moving to China. Not sure which one, but it was a great evening. Til next time! ...

Yes, I eat noodles out of a bag :)

A travel blog entry by lailasa

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... deal. I am offically Chinese. Too bad my language skills are not up to par just yet. The other fun event was Confucius’s birthday yesterday, meaning we had a special dinner. Confucius is very important to many Chinese people, especially my school where we have a statute of him near our front gate. They try to follow his teachings and his morals, and in my school we celebrate by leaving flowers at his statute, singing a song and ...

Duped Detour....

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... The tout disappears without even explaining where we need to go to board this connection.

So, temporarily stranded in an unknown city with a train in 12 hours time, after searching through every map in our Lonely Planet, we discover we are in Zhangjiang - a city which is further away from Yangshuo (our desired destination) than where we were the night previous. Our mistake. The travel agent said they would get us to Yangshuo - ...