Hebei Ren Fang hotel Shijiazhuang

... with a chinese host family. I hit the jack pot. I stayed with "becky" and her parents. Her father is a meteorologist and her mother works at a bank. They showed me all over town and gave me a nice wooden good luck bracelet. (They are not normally worn by tourists and other Chinese people have found mine pretty funny when i where it out)<br><br>Becky's family was loaded. They had a large 2 story apartment, flat ...

... Mr. Fu drops us off at the northern part of Shijiazhuang. We need to take a taxi to the north-western part where the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan expressway is. After getting stuck in traffic for nearly an hour we arrive at a reststop on the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan expressway. It's now dark and the only vehicles at the reststop are trucks. There's quite a few truck drivers eating at the restaurant at the reststop. We walk in, everyone stares at us, we smile and sits ...

... 8221; <br><br>*Biography Art- brought in all my magazines, told them to use<br>words and pictures that describe themselves. <br><br>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&#8217;ve added to my gift collection so this next week I&#8217;m going to have a raffle.

... 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.

... area of 15.8 thousand square kilometers (6100.4 square miles), it has 6 districts, 12 counties, 5 county-level cities and 1 national-level new and high-tech development zone under its prefecture. Shijiazhuang has a population of 9.395 million, 2.313 million of whom live in the urban area ...

... olds, "Adelvise" sung by a boy with little ballerina back-up dancers, "Heal the Word" sung by medical students, a university boy rapping "Lose yourself" by Eminem, and "Silent Night" sung by the group with the 78 year old man.  We really had a great time at the talent show and I got an award at the end...pretty much for being foreign! Anyway, if you have time, check out all of the photos and especially the videos! On Saturday ...

... lips (making the "muah" sound and blowing kisses)-needless to say, the face i drew looked really funny when i was done. then i drew a body and we went over basic body parts- they already knew most of em- i taught em elbow, ankle, and wrist. they're really good about repeating everything which allows me corret their pronunciation. since chinese is spoken in the back of your mouth with a relaxed tounge, a lot of em had a hard time pronouncing ...

... performing traditional Chinese opera songs, the Beijing orchestra is there, girls are playing beautiful traditional instruments... and we danced to "Achy Breaky Heart." Which one is out of place? But everyone seemed to like it because they were clapping along and small children ran up and gave us apples while we performed which is a sign of appreciation! We have all really learned to suck up our pride here and keep telling ourselves that we are never going to meet these ...

... last year left me hers and it fortunately didn't get snatched up by the time i got here) and then wandered through a few furniture stores. think i'm gonna buy a halltree soon so i can try to keep my room picked up. Last night we got in contact with a bunch of other people in our program and met up with them at their school. it was nice seeing more of the city. The nine of us (4 more will arrive in the next week) walked to a restaurant that they heard ...

... program and can elect to take more English in their last two years. We were hosted by Professor Jiu who is the Dean of the English Department. We met in his office before my lecture. Unlike the generally spare and austere furnishings of most university offices, Dean Jiu's spacious room was furnished with elegant traditional Chinese chairs and tables. Above his desk was what appeared to be an older calligraphy painting and, in the center of the ...