Hunan Bestride Hotel Changsha

... If you can't guess what that means then forget about it. So, i have taken some very beautiful head shots of the guys that did it. Roman and Pat are missing. Roman wasn't there until later and Pat was being difficult. Thanks for rounding up the other guys, Luke!!

Besides drinking and staying up all night, there is nothing much to report. See for yourself....

Changshan jälkeen otimme junan Zhuzhou:hun tapaamaan uutta tuttavaamme Erikaa. Asemalla meitä oli vastassa Erikan lisäksi myös pilvenpiirtäjät ja kirkkaat neonvalot. Yllätyimme ensi näkemästä, koska luulimme saapuvamme pienempään kaupunkiin. Zhuzhou ei ole lonelyplanetissa, joten jostain syystä oletimme kaupungin olevan pieni idyllinen maaseutukaupunki. Tai no jos ei ihan maaseutua niin pieni kaupunki ...

... game tomorrow. She is an English major, a senior and very talented.

I was able to watch Zhong Bin and Le Tian, today. They are both non- English major juniors and they are very bright.

Le Tian got second prize with 8 other students and Zhong Bin got third prize with 10 other students. This was out of 60 non-English major ...

I have finally returned from a well needed break. The last nine days, I have been in Changsha and Shanghai. I went to Changsha for two nights and then Shanghai for seven. It has been a good adventure.

I went to Changsha to celebrate National Day with all of my fellow teachers. It was a huge day for the PRC and Changsha was wild.

Besides partying with everyone, not much was done.

Here are the few pictures from the nights in Changsha.

... off, they just forgot to tell us about it though. Today I created a video slideshow of some of my adventures and interesting things I've seen in China. When you watch the video, click the other side of the mouse over the video and you can make it fullscreen, just go the zoom option. Hope you guys enjoy.

Last night was a great night, Michaela one of the world teach volunteers organized a potluck dinner and it was a huge hit. There were about 25 people that show up. I made penne pasta in vodka cream tomato sauce with pork meatballs. Everyone raved over how great my dish was but I'm not sure if ...

I have finished my first week of teaching and it went really great. Every class is so excited to see you and they all clap when you come in the classroom. I have a couple classes that are going to be a handful and I will have to be really strict with them. I have Fridays off and today I'm just ...

Sorry everyone for not posting as regular as I have in the past. Everything is going great, almost to great and I wonder what will go wrong. Let me explain. I received my placement school earlier before I left for China it is on the west side of Changsha and has a college feel. There are a lot of young Chinese students just hanging out. There is a mountain to my left and river to my ...

I am currently living and teaching at Hunan City University in Yiyang, Hunan, China. I am a teacher of Business English and an assistant football (soccer) coach. I arrived in China Aug 12th 2009 and I plan on staying until July 2010.

This is my rundown apartment. It is gross!!! The kitchen is tiny and absolutely filthy. The bedroom is not too bad, but everything is grimy. I have mad a lot of changes to it, but i have not taken any new pictures. I will do that soon. I start ...

... possibly a boy. I just found it really interesting that there was not one boy who was adopted. Of course I don't know all the details of this, maybe all these people wanted girls, maybe it was a program to adopt Chinese girls, I don't know, but it was interesting to think about. The flight was uneventful, I was in an exit row, that was about as exciting as it got. At one point the captain said that we were experiencing slight turbulence, which I found funny because I didn't feel any ...