Grand Dalian

... doesn't fit you and you look even better! Remember, if it doesnt look like its been sitting in the sun for 20 years, YOU CANT WEAR IT!

If you don't have the perm, (mostly if your a guy), then you have outrageous hair!! Especially popular is shaving the sides, and waxing your hair up and over it, kinda like a greasy bowl cut that sticks out over the shaved sides like ...

... 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 ...

... to get down to the beach and ride up the UFO mountain and take some pictures. Let me reminisce. When I arrived in Yangshuo in June I was offered the use of a bike because my walk from the school to the apartment was almost 30 minutes. I declined because I was overwhelmed with the traffic. I didn’t know if I could walk across a street let alone try to ride a bike. After a while walking was no problem as long as you didn’t mind standing in the middle of the road with ...

The first time I had even heard of Dalian was when I asked my Hangda (name of a company that repairs airplanes and makes some joint thingy that connects the gas thingy to the plane so it can refuel) class where they would choose to live, if they could live anywhere in China. One of my students said Dalian, because it is clean, modern, beautiful and by the sea. People I asked about Dalian since have all given positive feedback. I even looked into working in Dalian, fairly ...

... come up with the most accurate adjectives... like a little kids room, meets misprinted fabrics, meets dim lighting and an attempt at cozy. We stepped in and I howled with laughter.

On the two little cots that were side by side, lay little cotton pjs, which we changed into and waited for our masseuse. When the gentlemen came in, they introduced themselves and started by placing warm pillows on our stomachs and ...

... after meeting, and not really accomplishing much. The faculty member assigned to ‘supervise’ was nearly useless, and completely unhelpful other than hosting the meetings in her classroom.

We finally got to the point that they wanted T-shirts for all the English Ambassadors, banners that fell from the building, and the song "We will Rock you" playing, as it was already chosen by the larger group as the anthem.

OK, now we are getting ...

... 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 ...

... head phlegm" in your pocket. I saw a guy blow his nose into a sidewall garbage container the other day, and didn't waste a drop. I mean he expelled the wad in a package and at a rate that hit the target of a round hole in the wall. Like Michael Jordan. Since crowds are everywhere and there is often no place for refuge, you tend to be defensive on the sidewalk in case your forward neighbor decides its time to unload. Like a heavy neutrino, it could be a significant mass.

... t really classes as such...just levels of comfort: hard seats, soft seats, hard sleepers, and soft sleepers. i was on a hard sleeper train. it was clean and on time and all around very comfortable. the train station in beijing was a zoo...but once i gave into it, it was a fairly orderly zoo. i found my platform, train, car, and bunk without too much difficulty. except for the city names, the train tickets are entirely in chinese. so it was initially difficult to tell ...

A City by the Sea For the past three weeks I have been living in Dalian, a city by the sea, in northeast China. Dalian is quite a modern city with newly built buildings less than a couple years old. It has a history of only 100 years. Compared to China's rich history that has spanned over 5,000 years Dalian is a newly born city. During the Japanese-Russo war in the early 1900's, the Japanese took claim of this harbor city for over forty years. Russia also once had claim to this land as ...