Huarong Hotel Yangshuo

... of on the table again. Beer Fish (which is a local specialty), Chicken (Hainan style), about 8 dishes of vegetable with various meats and mushrooms, soup, and a place of sweet cooked apples. <br><br>The Open talked ran from dinner to about 9:30. We had the Scottish couple their again. We tried to help them with some suggestions of schools that would give them room and board for part time teaching. Peter the Canadian and Mike the Australian were ...

... to the Chinese way of thinking. You had to be there.<br><br>Wednesday October 21st: All my tenants or now moved out and I have the apartment for myself for a while. I decided to change the lock on the front door. That was interesting. A friend found a locksmith who (like most mobile businessman) came on a bicycle. Match up the locks gave me 6 keys, change another lock and 4 more keys and was off cost less the $20.00. More expensive the normal my friend ...

I know you'll all be sick of hearing these 'pollyanna-ish' sentiments by now but I am truly sorry to be leaving China. I've had the most incredible time particularly down in the beautiful southern province of Guangxi, where I had the good fortune to be 'adopted' by the Der English College of Yangshuo.<br> <br>Yangshuo is this backpacker's paradise of limestone pinnacles, incredible scenery and the glorious Li river - see my shots from my ...

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... motorbike angel (no wonder he wanted to help us get to the bridge!), put our bikes on the back and jumped aboard. Some locals were having wedding photos on a raft in the middle of the river - we offered them our congratulations and marvelled at their staying power in the heat in all their clothes - it was really, really hot! The raft turned out to be a great experience, we were virtually the only ones on the river and that combined with no ...

... for the best! The second and third day we had classes with Ping Wang. She is the contact that we have been talking to for many months when we were still in the United States. She taught us all about lesson planning and classroom control. We played educational games that we could use in our classrooms which were fun even for us! Thursday and Friday all the teachers in training had to teach a class at Owen's brothers English school Omeida. I ...

... I'm pretty street wary, but I wasn't prepared for a blind-sided attack. <br><br>Teresa and I were taking a short evening walk, and had gone up the Li River road a fairly short distance to watch the grandkids swim with the locals. On the way back, I heard a motor scooter coming, and I stepped to the side of the road, just as a mirror hit my arm. Unhurt, but angry, I yelled at the driver, but he never even looked back. Teresa, who was behind me a ways, said, "That man tried to run over ...

... some form of mattress.<br><br>for some reason i was very tired maybe still jet lagged or something and immediately went to sleep for 12 hours. awesome huh - so we left at 5pm and would arrive at 11am so i slepted until 5am and it was like i only had a six hour train ride in the morning. we had the whole "room" to ourselves<br><br>tony's former student, Rose, picked us up at the airport and acted as our tour guide. Kunming is a big city much bigger than Yangshuo. Rose and her ...

... Asien sein. Nach zweistuendig** Busfahrt kamen wir dann auch in den total v**nebelten B**gen an und konnten uns die Reist**rassen dann mehr od** we***** durch den Dunst ansehen. Das was man sehen konnte war dann zwar ziemlich beeindruckend, ab** es war dann auch an d** Zeit Richtung Norden aufzubrechen um dem Regen zu entgehen. An uns**em letzten Tag in Guilin sind wir dann auch noch einmal so richtig schoen nass geworden, was vor ein** weit**en Nachtzugfahrt besond**s angenehm ist.

... He is still developing his language program to teach local English and foreigners Chinese. But he has not been home for more then two years and thinks that this fall he will have to go home to make some real money to live. At the tour guide class this evening we had about 50% new people so it is hard to know where to start our lessons each night. Dawn goes over the basic grammar and phonetic alphabet and they all seem to ...