Express By Holiday Inn City Center Dalian

Ok, I did it, I ate some western food. I still haven't eaten at McDonalds or KFC yet. KFC is everywhere. I wonder if they were the first American chain to come to China. McDonalds are prolific as well. No, my roommate and his friends wanted to go out for a western meal and we headed down to a place called "The Real Eddies" Not sure of the story behind the name. But here goes - Eddie was trained as a cook/chef in the ...

... behind me were ok since they would honk to let me know they wanted to be where I was. But one time I looked up and saw a car coming toward me – IN MY LANE!!! I had to go around him but check first that I didn’t pull into the path of a car screaming down the road. Finally, I made it to the beach and then I rode on the sidewalk as much as possible. I know, I know – I am a chicken.

The view was still clear, but by now the sun was getting lower in the sky so I had ...

... rather ironic and confusing symbolism, but perhaps memory fails: please do comment on this if you know about such biological matters. In Yantai I'm staying in paradoxically the cheapest but nicest hotel of my current trip. And I've just had a divine bowl of fish-and-pickled-cabbage soup. The restaurant was small and very scruffy, but the food was glorious, and the place was filled with a charming, down-to-earth family simplicity. So all is well.

... slang for bimbo) stakes… nowadays, I may well make the grade.

Offloading the books (which still haven't arrived in Jinan 2 weeks later, I might add) took up a fair bit of time because I am out of writing practice so it took me ages to write my address in Chinese. This meant that I had to catch a taxi to the airport bus stop, instead of a bus, to save time. This ended up being rather ironic, since my flight was delayed by an hour. The flight stopped in ...

... of the owner, who is also the school’s librarian, told us how long it took him to teach the local bakery to make real hamburger buns, both in shape and taste—they couldn’t understand why he didn’t want sugar in the recipe like their sweet buns.

It is amazing what kind of impact ‘comfort’ food can have when you are travelling, or away from home.

Yum... cheese.

~Ashley

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He picked up his calculator and typed in 60 x 15... he wanted Y60 PER shirt, not total. The Y900 was more than our entire t-shirt and printing budget, the other student had gotten the first 30 shirts for less than Y180, I was mad. We tried our best to argue that we had agreed to Y60 we were even willing to pay a little more, but to absolutely no avail, and we ended up walking away empty handed. Here I thought I was good at negotiating.

~Ashley

... 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.

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 ...

... the sobering consideration is the cost, of course, but the bureaucratic and neighborhood challenges are real and considerable, and it is a definitive measure of succes to overcome those issues. Another unavoidable quality of Italy is the food. The climate supports all edible flora - bananas and kiwi to potatos and onions. The coastline is greater ...

... but there are a surprising number of large department type buildngs and hotels that are vacant with no signs of life. Some apparently vacant for years. I'm curious if they are publicly owned buildkings or private, will find out more about it. The railroad follows the contour of the peninsula. That is part of the yard passing in the foreground, extends to the railroad station about a mile to the West. Russia ...

... had enough after an hour or so, so i climbed up to my top bunk and fell asleep pretty fast. i woke to the sound of bai ling, (not that she was loud or anything), and found that i had slept most of the journey. we arrived in haerbin at 7am and upon leaving the train station tried to locate someone to get us a hotel. now usually these people offering hotels are mobbing you around train stations but not today. maybe the snow had put them off but i doubt it. anyway we ...