Holiday Inn Yangtze Chongqing

Elise recovered while on the boat. She was back to herself by the end. We were quite relieved. That bit of R&R was what she needed. However, Henry either got what she had or caught a different bug, because he ended up having diarrhea the entire time we were on the boat. (Too much information probably.) But that is what happens on trips overseas. Everyone else was fine.

We celebrated Charlie's birthday a day early ...

... eager to learn a little more about how the tonal system functions and to see the elegant written characters broken down into easy steps. The language fascinates me but a few weeks is too little to attempt any serious learning, so I continue to operate by pointing to lines in a phrase book!

Anyway, enough of life in the city, I have to go as I have a boat to catch... and hopefully the next couple of days will provide a little more fresh air!

... br>universal laws. We earnestly need laws to run this world in a proper
way, in which it is possible to harmoniously get along with
surroundings. Once we grasp something behind rules and disciplines, we
will abide it automatically. But, the real question is how many have
ever spared a thought for method in discipline. Unfortunately, most of
time, we blindly hew to regulations, especially some ones without rhyme
or reasons.

... prodded by
the doctor and radiologist who were both less than gentle. Tomic had
returned to the group to take them to dinner so when the x-ray was
finally ready we were on our own. We found our way back to the doctors
office but he didn’t speak a word of English and we couldn’t understand
whether he was saying it was broken or not. We found a little phrase
book and the only vaguely helpful word we could find was ‘ ...

... is pattern of
nature. Walt Disney took away his kingdom of fairy tale, in which there
used to preach up qualities of life regardless personal achievement and
wealth. Without him, the girl was born in a world that everyone hunts
for fame, and she can only be recognized, even by her own family, if
she made a few so-called honorable outcomes. The little girl cannot be
bestowed a mother’s kiss if she cleans the apartment or cooked for
family ...

... butts, which are produced with frightening regularity. Bird life seems to be healthy here, (what this means is that I have heard birds from time to time), but I am a bit of a sceptic where wildlife in China is concerned. The Chinese are rule breakers, and they love a rule breaker. As a matter of fact, rule breakers are applauded. On one particularly pretty part of the river Chinese people were climbing over the safety railing to stand at the front of the boat for a ...

... in getting Stillwell fired. The Communists, meanwhile, fought the Japanese ferociously. And when the war against the Japanese was over, and Chaing began his long-planned war to exterminate the Communists, it was the latter who were war-hardened and ready to fight. Four years later the G'mo was an exile. Stillwell is still respected in China, both for fighting against the hated Japanese and for disliking Chaing Kai Shek. His house remains ...

Up early to catch bus to Chongqing. Met a couple of girls we last saw at the Great Wall. Took 4 hours BUT when we arrived at the first bus stop in Chongqing a man held up a pad with HELEN on it so like idiots we got off and when we got off the other two girls followed. We then discovered that we were not at the bus station and had to negotiate with this young man to phone our hostel rep who was ...

... 30 million people living here. There are large hills around Beibei one of them I climbed yesterday. It took about three hours to get close to the top. At the top I could see that Beibei is tucked in the center of a very hilly landscape with a river (the jailing) running through the center of it. Downstream in Chongqing the Yangtze and Jailing connect. I am taking chemistry, history, language, senior sem, and an art course that ...

... in China led by an increasing numb** of foreign crime syndicates, reportedly from the African regimes of *****ia and Lib**ia and triads from neighboring Asian countries. Moreov**, violent crime on the south**n shore is notoriously rampant in Guangdong, making it the only province in China's mainland to arm police with guns. Nor is this to say that West**n**s are entirely exempt from eith** being the victim of, or committing, more s**ious crimes. I have found ...