Guo An Hotel Shijiazhuang

... a noodle dish.

Luke and I went back another night, but lacked the mandarin to order the noodles, but we managed to get the lamb and some chinese beers. That same night we also managed to catch a live crab that was escaping from th restaurant. This was extremely entertaining for the other diners.

There are not alot of foriegners in Shijiazhuang. We were a real novelty. When luke was outside some ...

Mr. Fu who's giving us a ride from Beijing turns out to be a businessman driving to Shijiazhuang for a meeting. Once he got comfortable with us he agrees to take us all the way to Shijiazhuang. The visibility is about 50 feet with heavy down pour as he drives slowly south. Both Liu Chang and I can't believe we're finally on the road. We seriously considered spending the night at the motel at the gas station. That would have been downright depressing!
Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China whereskyle

Update on a few things we've been up to lately..

We lay out in the park when we have time- try to tune out
all the "hellos" so we don't go crazy.

Went to a lunch with Jack (boss at Ai Hua)- he’s trying to
start up a new foreign language school so he had to meet with some official
people of the city- I was the only foreigner-they were extremely friendly-
asked me a lot of questions and said I could count on them for anything I ...

... m either traveling or working a lot on the weekends, I usually never can but this Sunday I made a point not to schedule any lessons so could go. We took two cars out to Dragon Lake- about an hour outside the city. It was beautiful. We went on a speed boat, then went on a paddle boat, then caught some worm-fish things, had a nice picnic and relaxed by the water. It was great. Hoping to be able to go out with them again sometime before I leave. I really like both of their families.

Guilin China Travel China Attractions Yangshuo China Travel Located in the vicinity of the North China Plain, Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province, neighbors Beijing and Tianjin in the north, Bohai Sea in the east, and lies against the continuous Taihang Mountain in the west. Covering ...

... a tad overbearing- he doesn't have much time to just be a kid and play. Although he seems to enjoy everything he's involved in, I have a feeling his parents don't give him much of a choice. I'm trying to make our time together really fun so he'll continue to like learning English. My friend Hanne is gonna be leaving soon so I'll be taking over one of her students. And Mickey asked if I could start teaching triplet girls ...

... loads of laundry and swept the whole apt (gets so dirty so fast!) As I was cleaning, my washing started going crazy again and jumping off the ground. It was really loud and shook my apt. It's now been "fixed" 3 times- once for not spinning the water out of the clothes, another time for the jumping, another time for flooding the bathroom and this next time will be for jumping again and flooding so bad even my bedroom floor had water covering it. I ...

... We were in the paper because they wanted to know about what we knew about a holiday in China called Mid Autumn Festival. Apparently it is the 2nd most important holiday in China and we only found out about it from Helen. It is a holiday where people basically celebrate the moon and the upcoming harvest. The reporters asked us if we had any holiday that was similar so we said that maybe Thanksgiving could be. Then they kept asking if we have a holiday where we look at the moon ...

... decided we wanted to keep to the culture and not waste money by thinking in US terms. Friday we went and got our physical examinations- the intense ones we got in the US meant nothing here- we had blood taken, xrays, urine test, blood pressure, the whole deal- even had an ultrasound! willie too- ha! quite the experience. afterward we went and got SIM cards- thought it would work in my blackberry but right now it says "invalid SIM" so im gonna play ...

... blocks & is the largest in China) were belching volumes of smoke into the thick, gray air. David said that within 5 years, all of these factories would be moved well outside of the city limits - a move that will no doubt help Shijiazhuang but does little to solve the larger problem of pollution. Again, I say this in full awareness that the U.S. remains the worlds largest producer of greenhouse gases. Strangely, I have the feeling that China ...