Fu Hao Hotel Shijiazhuang

... in line, and when we got back they had given away all the rooms. Beasue of this we got upgraded to a suite. We had a siting room with couches, a refrigerator, and even a balcony! Lucky us.

Once we got our stuff up to the room, we went to find a late dinner with Kirk the program director. He led us to an outdoor place which is a carwash by day and a restaurant by night. It was good we had mutton on a stick ...

... to work at least 20 more years to save enough money for them.

Mr. Qiao likes to hear about my travel stories. He says he dreams of going to Inner Mongolia to ride horses on the grassland and go to Xishuangbana in the tropics, but it won't happen in this life time. He's got too much obligations already. But he's not a cynic. He tells me he's driven over 10,000 km on this truck alone, I tell him that's more than 2.5 times around the world, he chuckles.

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*Biography Art- brought in all my magazines, told them to use
words and pictures that describe themselves.

I usually have some kind of gift to give to the students that are participating a lot or won the game- things ranging from crayons and candles to headphones and baseball hats. Since going through my apartment and deciding what to bring home, I’ve added to my gift collection so this next week I’m going to have a raffle.

... house. The live in a storage unit where they sell children's books. We made dumplings and Willie got drunk with the grandpa. Kara and I bought some fun books- I want to give em to the kids I tutor as going away gifts because a lot of em are in Chinese and English. I think Young Young would really like one for her son too. Day of Fun in the Sun with Sunny and Jassi's families *I teach these two little girls and their moms always ask me do things with them but because ...

... with recent urban development. A jade-like moat embraces the city gently, bordered by 20 charming parks. This beautiful city is filled with culture and development, attracting visitors with new features daily. China Highlights Shanghai China Travel Xi'an China Travel Longsheng China Travel

... sometimes. They stand over his shoulder the entire hour and a half and correct him the second he mispronounces a word. It's frustrating because he's really smart, and I know he'd correct himself but they don't give him the chance. He's involved in so much- English lessons, piano, singing, calligraphy. In addition to his daily homework, he practices each activity for one hour a day. His parents mean well but I think they ...

... for me to be comfortable with that. she said she wanted to meet once a week for atleast 2 hours- wants to take me to different places around the city which i think will be great because it'll allow us to talk about many different topics. She came to our chinese lesson this morning because she had a day off work and wanted to see how helen teaches us so she can teach foreigners chinese later maybe for her job. When I got back from lunch I did a ...

... beautiful parks, and more that I'm sure I just can't remember now. I either wouldn't have know about most of these places until much later in the year or at all if Jake was not our friend! We all feel really lucky and we all want him to come to America so we can return the favor. Jake also wants to open his own restaurant in the city and sell sub sandwiches like subway because he loves them and there is NOTHING around here like that. We were also in the newspaper this week ...

... s gonna be teaching at hebei normal university along with 4 other people in our program but his apt is on the east side of campus and the rest are on the west which are 30 min apart. after dinner we walked around for a while, went into two different clubs- pretty early so no one was there- looked at menus and decided we weren't gonna stay cuz drinks were really expensive-beers were really only like $5 but since here we can get a whole case for about $3 ...

... and preconceptions with nasty data.... Hebei University of Economics and Business (HUEB) - A couple of days ago we took the bus for staff and faculty north of town to the Hebei University of Economics and Business where our friend David Wei teaches. The trip itself was instructive as we drove through the manufacturing and industrial area of town. Huge pharmaceutical and steel factories (the pharmaceutical factory covered the equivalent of about 6 ...