Home Inn (Qingniwa Bridge Branch) Dalian

... jackets are IN too! Find the puffiest, brightest, shiniest jacket ever to be cool. But its even better if its bright purple! In Dalian, purple is the hottest color right now, your nothing without purple in your wardrobe!!

Fur! Fur is so hot right now. If your not wearing your puffy shinny jacket, your wearing the mangiest, ugliest colored fur you can find! Make sure ...

... tortilla chips with the meal. The enchiladas were pretty good.

Now part of the reason I don't eat western food is the price. Let me give you an example. On my way home from school I have found two places where I especially like to eat. I can get a bowl of noodles in hot soup for 6 yuan. Or I can stop at the kiosk and get a serving of fried rice or fried noodles for 3 - 5 yuan. Remember 7 yuan = $1. My ...

... hour. When I arrived at Dalian, I called the hotel (the only reason I even bothered was because Dalian is very busy in summer and the hotels there are expensive). A much nicer woman than last time said they were full and my booking seemed to have been cancelled at 18:00pm. In some ways relieved, I walked over to the airport information desk and booked a hotel room. It was cheaper than the one I’d booked online and the information desk worker even walked me over ...

... to Dalian! It can take hours to get 4 people into the one taxi!

Tuesday - today we went to the recently opened B&Q and IKEA in Dalian, to get some house refurbishment ideas. It was nice to sit in the IKEA restaurant and eat Swedish meatballs, then wander round the showroom, it was just like being in Bristol (or Leeds).

Wednesday - Jinshitan - we went to the beach resort of JinShitan to look at flat with a sea view ...

... our faces, necks and shoulders. It was heaven.

It wasn’t until he started moving to my arms, that I realized that my masseuse may be blind, as he had to 'look’ around with his fingers to find the part of my arm he was looking for. At one other point, when he started to massage my arm, he let my hand fall in his lap—and I instantly tensed—not because I was in an inappropriate place, but more ...

... I felt more at home. So I tried to encourage them to think about design, what they want the t-shirt to say, or represent... I drew an example on the board of a simple combination of ‘E’ and ‘A’ and that was it, they were sold. I would have changed things around and been a little more creative if I knew I was suggesting ideas rather than suggesting examples... Oh well. Next challenge, teach the students how to use InDesign from scratch in ...

... in that first class was the super smart student who always has all the right answers in class. He was so dejected by not having all the rules, and not succeeding like some of the other students, but it was fun to tease and use him as an example of the many proud people who were left to fend for their lives in any way they could.

I think it was a great lesson. And we successfully repeated it many more times throughout the day, and in other classes...

Ashley

... est.) 20.8 1.732 6.93 (2007 est.) Natural gas billion cm (2005 est.) : 604 82.64 55.6 (2006 est.) Telephones - million (2006): 172 25.049 368 Telephones - cellular, million (2006): 233 71.5 461.1 Internet users, millions (2006): 208 28.855 162 Easy to find distinctions here - the US energy use, Italian growth rate, China's illiteracy rate ...

... but there is a different bus that goes directly from the train station to the beach/park i was looking for. thanks for nothing lonely planet. as it turns out the warship is actually part of a hilarious water/amusement park. a rundown chinese sea world. while in my expensive hotel, i had the chance to watch chinese television, called chinese central television or CCTV. it was pretty interesting. i mostly watched the english channel, CCTV international. this guy phil ...

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 ...