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Travel Blogs from Dezhou
A Turkeyless Thanksgiving
... site, which comes after a very informative museum tour which includes a peace or humanitarian award for Adolph Hitler. Germans had been heavily involved, along with many Americans, in trying to protect Chinese refugees within Nanjing during the slaughter. How very ironic.
Well on to happier topics, I found a Christmas tree in my local supermarket! How awesome! I was thinking what a waste it was, but maybe not. It's not a real ...
Chicken Busin' on the Yellow River + Beijing
... sense that we would in the Midwest. If a journey is more than an hour or so, they hop on the train. Now that doesn't mean it's always convenient, and over this holiday, and pretty much every other major holiday, if you don't get your tickets in advance there's a good chance you're not going anywhere. When I say packed I'm talking like sardines. The trains, the stations, the airports, it's even hard to get a cab on both weekends surrounding the 'off' ...
Fluctuation Situation
... persistent, because of my Mid-Western attitudes. In this case however, by being willing to negotiate and then constantly staying on top of the staff until it was done, I gained a much better living situation and classes which I am more suited to teaching.
This situation caused me to think quite a bit about why it is that Chinese people in general seem to delay things or just ignore you and I believe that it comes to their concept of face. If ...
Jinan Travel Guide(Shandong China)
... in the Daming Lake Park and the Double-Nine Festival on the Thousand-Buddha Mountain.
♦The city is hospitable and receives tourists from all over the world. Marco Polo once visited Jinan and left words of praise to this city. The Baotu Spring, Daming Lake and the Thousand Buddha Mountain decorate the city as a beautiful garden.
♦Compared with ...
Lincicome Kerr and Salas share Open lead
(Reuters) - Long-hitting Brittany flatbed laser cutter Lincicome birdied two of her last four holes in energy-sapping heat to surge into a three-way tie for the lead in Thursday's opening round of the U.S. Women's Open in Kohler, Wisconsin.
Lincicome, who claimed her only major title at the 2009 Kraft Nabisco Championship, fired a three-under-par 69 ...