Dalian Wanda International Htl

... tortilla chips with the meal. The enchiladas were pretty good.<br><br>Now part of the reason I don't eat western food is the price. Let me give you an example. On my way home from school I have found two places where I especially like to eat. I can get a bowl of noodles in hot soup for 6 yuan. Or I can stop at the kiosk and get a serving of fried rice or fried noodles for 3 - 5 yuan. Remember 7 yuan = $1. My ...

... a close look at the blue street sign and you will see the road to the seashore bathing place. That is the beach to you and me. I really can&#8217;t figure out why China doesn&#8217;t hire a few foreigners who can speak and read Chinese. Their full time job could be to translate for signs and advertisements. They seem to want to have things translated into English, so why not do it correctly? Oh well. I can&#8217;t do it so I will just take pictures of the signs that amuse me.<br><br>I ...

... and the sand is white. My standards are too high and Dalian fell way short. I caught a cab back to the city and watched episodes of the Beijing soap followed by more Korean food. This turned out to be just what I needed, so it was a good day after all, despite not really seeing eye to eye with Dalian. <br><br>Later that night, I got a text message from Xiao Ma asking where I was and what I was up to. He said he was at Erdaohai with his dad and missed me a lot. I ...

... of the owner, who is also the school&#8217;s librarian, told us how long it took him to teach the local bakery to make real hamburger buns, both in shape and taste&#8212;they couldn&#8217;t understand why he didn&#8217;t want sugar in the recipe like their sweet buns.<br><br>It is amazing what kind of impact &#8216;comfort&#8217; food can have when you are travelling, or away from home.<br><br>Yum... cheese.<br><br>~Ashley

... hour, so they can create the logo themselves.<br><br>There are sometimes when doing something yourself is SO much easier than teaching it, or watching someone else do it, but I persevered, and didn&#8217;t change or overcorrect their work.<br><br>After school, Daniella and I went on the hunt for t-shirts, using the supervisor&#8217;s terrible directions, and the student&#8217;s rough estimates of the stall we should look for. Our last piece of advice was not to ...

... in that first class was the super smart student who always has all the right answers in class. He was so dejected by not having all the rules, and not succeeding like some of the other students, but it was fun to tease and use him as an example of the many proud people who were left to fend for their lives in any way they could. <br><br>I think it was a great lesson. And we successfully repeated it many more times throughout the day, and in other classes...<br><br>Ashley

... the receipts. I couldn't find the bank machine receipt. All of a sudden I remembered... <br><br>Everyone else had taken out cash, but my card was having problems. The transaction got all the way to the end, and then said "The machine has insufficient funds." I checked my online banking, and sure enough, there was no withdrawal for the day before. I hadn&#8217;t lost the money because I had never ...

Well, I arrived back in China safely after a wonderful vacation back home. Nothing too eventful happened on the flight over. My flight was delayed a little while because of the snow in Chicago, but that wasn't too bad. While I was waiting, I talked with a couple of different Chinese ladies who were going back to China. One had lived in the US for a few ...

Chinese Scroll print. The image is printed on silk with a paper backing. It's about 15 feet long, the image itself is about 12" wide. It depicts an emperor's (or other high official who was allowed to ride in the carrier) procession with ships, landscape, and village scenes . There are many scenes of retail activity - food, merchandise, livestock and lodging ...

... in choosing to come and live and work in a foreign "exotic" (uh, puke, vomit, I hate that word) country, a shot of bai jiu (Chinese rice wine, aka the Chinese version of sake (Japanese) or sho-ju (Korean)...in my opinion, the most disgusting of them all! And I like the other two!) Good times Maple Leaf!