Jinsanli Hotel
Travel Blogs from Wuhan
The Transit Day
... hope. I think the place we stopped at is called Wuchang but I'm not 100% sure. Where ever it is it is apparently home of the Chinese internet. An hour and a bit in the train station then onto the overnighter to Yangshou. The day was finished off playing card games. It's occured to me I have completely dropped out of the current affairs loop. I used to make a point of doing this on my holidays as ...
Oct 20, X'ian to Yichang
... were soon on the road in a 32 seat bus; the only occupants. The 4 hour road trip was our first opportunity to see rural China....very interesting. At one extreme we saw farmers manually tilling and harvesting their crops, to larger holdings being worked by machines. We stopped at the ancient city of Jingzhou for lunch and to visit the local museum & ancient city wall. The city does not have the modernisation program of Beijing or X'ian, was ...
Population EXPLOSION!!!
Next train – off to Wuchang. I wasn’t aware that I had made a
mistake on my itinerary until my very nice seat mate discovered that I
would be in Wuchang for the night. He then proceeded to tell me that
Wuchang is the largest industrial city in China – about 50 million
people in the province. That US lady and her husband who have 18 kids ...
10th September - 14th September
... suppose to sit on these toilets!! Anyway the concert was quite good even though between each song the composer found it appropriate to talk to the audience (in Chinese) for a good 10 minutes. We had no idea what was going on!!
After the concert we all went back to the crescent opposite gate 2, enjoyed beer and street food and mosquitoes!!!
Tuesday 11th just chilled out in the day and then we had the start of English corner that night at 1830-2030. ...
Classes, Aloha and the weekend!
So Friday the 7th September was the first time I taught 100 Chinese students English and its not something I am going to forget for a while!! Firstly I had my D class, they were, well hmm not interested at all and there level of English is low so it was very difficult to start with but once I had introduced myself and they introduced themselves everybody was more relaxed including myself so it went well (i hope it did anyway!) I was ...