Dalian Delight Hotel

... restaurant and I really couldn't decide what I wanted. Burger or Enchiladas and somehow I had a vision of Randy Hansen telling me to order the Enchiladas. So I did. On the menu it says (all in English of course) that I would get three chicken enchiladas served with rice, beans and tortilla chips. Count the chips in picture. Tortilla chips must be very valuable in China. In case you don't see it, I received three (3 ...

... ship and I noticed it was open today, but now because I had the bike, I couldn’t walk up to it. There was one more road but it had some barriers set up. Maybe I can ride up there and come out by the space ship. I thought I would give it a try. I started riding through the parking lot and up to that road and just as I entered, I heard someone yell behind me. I don’t know what they yelled but by the way they yelled, it sounded like – Don’t go up there. I turned ...

... 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 ...

... didn&#8217;t fess up right at the beginning. She was happy with her massage, but after some comparisons I definitely think I got the more skilled masseuse.<br><br>To top off the evening, we headed to Susan&#8217;s, one of the only true western restaurants in this part of China. I went all out and ordered an orange Julius and a poutine. It is not quite the same, but a pretty darn close replica, especially for China. The ...

... to look over all the 'opportunities' I was looking for something that would be small, and over quick&#8212;the festival itself was three weeks long.<br><br>One of the roles was to assist with the Opening Ceremony... which totally fit the bill. Small setup and only scheduled to last ten minutes. Well, I was kind of right.<br><br>The students who were responsible for this part were sweet, but extremely indecisive, which meant that we kept having meeting, after ...

... would have felt was bang on. One student said: "If this had been real life I would have jumped from the building." The dejected way he said it was pretty funny, but under the circumstances, that is exactly what some people did. <br><br>Certainly some of the students did make money, but there was enough variety that it better demonstrated the result across the nation, rather than for a few individuals. One of the best parts was the first and only person to go ...

... makes three versions of the test, all the same questions, but with the answers in very different orders. It is his way to prevent cheating-- makes sense to me.<br><br>What we struggle with the marking the essays. They have the same 6 point scale that is used in BC, but it can be very vague, and it is hard to balance English proficiency with concept attainment. What we do for practise, is we all mark a third of the papers, writing it in pencil, then they ...

... five Japanese mothers sat behind us with their toddlers. One toddler came to our table, and I said, "Nihao." One of the English teachers told me that the child didn't understand me because he was Japanese. "How could you tell?" I asked. He said that the mothers were speaking Japanese and also, Japanese had different behaviors. He couldn't give me examples about the behaviors. He agreed that just from the appearance of the child you wouldn ...

... ask more questions...the woman kindly pulled me inside the hut to get out of the rain. i cracked out my guidebook and showed her the hostel i wanted...lonely planet includes chinese characters for most names and so she could read where i wanted to go. she started calling around...i showed her the phone number for the hostel...she called there. after a few minutes she got off the phone and made an x like motion over the entry for the hostel. apparently it was no longer ...

... foreign born Chinese who could speak English fluently. Soon enough, a crowd of about ten to twelve eager learners had their ears tuned to me. We talked about many interesting conversations such as the differences between American and Chinese culture, the differences in the education systems, ancient Chinese history, and some of the current problems China is facing today. I even tried to push the envelope to get them to talk about sensitive issues such as Tibet-China relations, Tiannamen ...