Friendship Business Hotel Dalian

... sign under the chin* Hey Yolanda, your going the wrong way, Peace Plaza is that way! *Double peace sign under the chin" followed by galloping and hands in a "holding the reigns" position). Then theres Jimmy, a local from the "External Relationships- ER" function, who promptly txt Anna J on her arrival saying, "Im here if you have any needs" and in his VP application, wrote under Strengths: "I am an expert in penetrating people". Yes AIESEC DUT is hilarious ...

The people in Dalain, omg, I dont know how they get up in the morning, look in the mirror, and think they can step out in public. Heres some tips of how to fit in in Dalian:

Perm- The perm is IN. Get a short perm, wax it down with excessive wax but with fuzzy bits fraying out everywhere. Maybe like a huge afro waxed down I guess, but shaped like a bob.

Shinny ...

... 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 ...

... I finally lost my cool and asked her that, seeing as I was in transit and boarding a frigging plane in 5 minutes, what on earth made her think I had time to go wandering about trying to find a flipping internet bar to write a sodding email, the reply for which I would not possibly receive in time to be of any use to either of us?! If she had no idea of what to do in this kind of situation, I would wait until I arrived in Dalian and then call to see if they still had a ...

... I was caught off guard. All he said was "relax, you must relax." I almost laughed, but did manage to relax.

Without a doubt, it was one of the most amazing massages I have ever had, head to toe.

Unbeknownst to me, Kirsty had called ahead and specifically requested one of the fellows who is particularly well skilled at targeting troubled areas, and is also blind. I felt guilty after when she told me, and ...

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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 ...

... an elderly lady and her grandson. I offered her grandson a drink and it was apparent we terrified him, but his grandmother urged him to take it. She seemed like such a nice lady, though it was kinda apparent from her appearance she hadn't had the easiest life. We found out the boy's name was Weng Fai and that his birthday is, well at the time it was tomorrow but now that's today (he's 3 now). I wish I could describe in words how amazing these two people ...

... heard of it, Friendship Store has a little. The cornerstone of the 8 story building says, 1996, and the building, not just the contents, is first class. There were a number of clerks who spoke english, or passable enough to figure out exchange rates. They were almost too anxious to meet all of our needs. If China has made this kind of effort to host the 2008 Olympics, they WIN.

That's it. Maybe some other time I'll make it to the other places in China I still want to visit, like Inner Mongolia, Tibet, and a lot more of Sichuan and Yunnan. Oh, and by special request, a few approximates: total hours on a train/bus (almost all train): 284 total bone spent: 5000RMB, which is, what, a little over six hundred USD. total young girls in Kashgar wearing sandals in below-freezing weather while posing all ghetto-superstaresque for the camera: 1.