Kaifa Hotel Kaifeng
No.95 Xinsong Road, Shunhe Hui Nationality District Kaifeng, Henan, China
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I fell in love with a city
... histories, secrets, stories and power structures. We can never know the whole world. The best we can do is divide up the world and all its phenomena into different places, disciplines, and through specifics and details know the greater whole. I don’t mean we should live in a vacuum, but, especially in an age of constant information flow, a shallow wide-lens seems to catch even less than a focused point. Life, in fact, happens in the gaps and small cracks, ...
Take THAT Rosetta Stone + Meeting a Unicorn
... where I grew up and where I'm headed. Before long, I started figuring out that people wanted to know my name, my age, even my marital status. I'm actually pretty shy, and it was so weird to have all these people asking so many questions, but I played along, and in the process they started teaching me Mandarin and I taught them a little English. They thought it was hilarious watching me struggle to pronounce their words, and my favorite ...
Kaifeng
... pouring a vial in her hand into the waves below. As I understand it, she represents a female Chinese form of Avalokitesvara, and her vial of water symbolizes the compassion that pours out of her. Behind her was a massive wall of figures (representing Bodhisattvas, I suppose).
Next, I came to ...
From Zhengzhou to Kaifeng.
... a 3-wheeler back to the city centre, from there we said farewell to Mo-Mo as she had to catch the bus back to Zhengzhou and we needed to get back to the train station.The train we took back was the fastest one so it only took about 6 hours which was good and the train standards were similiar to first class compared to UK trains. We arrived Shanghai after 10pm and we were extremely tired not only that but the day after i start my Chinese ...
17th March, 2009
... so that we also tried our best to hold the game. The funny 40 minutes was left, we should leave the school and had lunch with the primary studentsf family. The family that I had lunch together was Mr. Wongf s family. Ivan and me called him gbrother Wongh. We had the lunch for about one hour since the steamed bread were very hard, we like eating soft bread in HK, so we spent one hour to eat one steamed bread. ...


