Hoton Hotel Shijiazhuang

... in line, and when we got back they had given away all the rooms. Beasue of this we got upgraded to a suite. We had a siting room with couches, a refrigerator, and even a balcony! Lucky us. <br><br>Once we got our stuff up to the room, we went to find a late dinner with Kirk the program director. He led us to an outdoor place which is a carwash by day and a restaurant by night. It was good we had mutton on a stick ...

... 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 ...

... br><br>*Taught them about playing card games in English- they learned<br>&#8220;Jack, Queen, King, Ace&#8221; they usually say&#8221;11,12,13,1.&#8221; Taught 'em different<br>card terminology and they learned a couple different games like BS-except I<br>called it &#8220;lie&#8221; and Egyptian Rat Screw. They taught me a game that&#8217;s a lot like<br>&#8220;P&amp;A &#8220;or &#8220;*******.&#8221;<br><br>*Wrote short stories- students had to include 5 ...

... house. The live in a storage unit where they sell children's books. We made dumplings and Willie got drunk with the grandpa. Kara and I bought some fun books- I want to give em to the kids I tutor as going away gifts because a lot of em are in Chinese and English. I think Young Young would really like one for her son too. Day of Fun in the Sun with Sunny and Jassi's families *I teach these two little girls and their moms always ask me do things with them but because ...

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 ...

... going to get our hair done on Friday- they want me to bring all my foreign friends. I've also been teaching at a Foreign Language Kindergarten. The kids range from 2-6. They normally have a full time foreign English teacher but they're next one isn't here until May so I'm filling in til then. The kids are adorable. The 4 classes I teach have Chinese teachers that speak to them in English a lot so they know basic things. We ...

... so it was very messy. We were at dinner for much longer than we wanted to be so by the time we got in a cab to go back to our apts, we could all use a drink, ha. And that we did. We met up with Jane (a girl from England that will also be teaching English at our school and had just gotten here that day), grabbed some beers for the cab ride and met up with everyone at our friends university. They took us to "Corona bar." It was the third floor of ...

... to shower before school and get ready because you will need another one right after your first class. My students are pretty immature for 8th graders and some of them can be naughty but I think that they are just talkative and are so excited to have an American as a teacher. We will loose our luster maybe and the students will be a little more calm. We each teach 2 classes in the morning and 2 classes in the afternoon, so we have a lunch break from 11:10- 2:40! Not a bad ...

... apt bulding was right there. literally across the street. from the outside, our building looks like a complete dump but when you get in its pretty nice-white tile floors and walls. we met another hellen (with two l's) who lives in the building with us and has helped us with a lot of things. we have the three apts on the top 5th floor. we each have our own bedroom, living room, bathroom, small kitchen on a porch-refridgerator is separtate. we had a ...

... and empresses of the Ming dynasty (considered by some to be the high-point of Chinese art and culture). The tombs are large pavilions that are connected to the elaborately painted gates by long walkways shaded over by willow trees and guarded by a phalanx of stone animals (lions, Chinese griffins, elephants), soldiers, and scholars. (See photos). The second tomb we visited is entirely underground and surrounded by a park of cypress and pine trees. The quiet, shaded ...