Lw Grand Hotel Beijing

... s the most popular among younger generation. The sim card was 89RMB (where other sim cards are around 50-60, but more expensive rates); and we all bought a 100RMB top-up prepay cards. I bought and paid mine first, then my two other friends. When the last person finished paying, the friend who paid second asked me whether the sim card has been topped up, i replied her 'no you have to take the top up card and do it yourself'. then she ...

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Chinese Cuisine vs. American Cuisine (in the context of restaurants)

1. Order of dishes
[ Chinese ] - Soups / cold appetizer then hot dishes
[American] - Soup or salad then cold/hot dishes

2. Drink preference
[ Chinese ] - Warm beverages (i.e. tea)*
[American] - Cold beverages (i.e. Coke, Sprite, etc.)

3. Portions
[ Chinese ] - Average
[American ...

... part of the teacher.
Then we have nothing, until 8-10 when you can go to the dorm classrooms and ask the teachers questions on the days homework. But by nothing, I mean doing the nights homework and memorizing the characters for tomorrow. hahaha
The most incredible thing is that speaking a foreign language 24/7 makes you more tired than you could believe. I sleep like 8 hours a night and still feel like a zombie most of the day.

... This was a luxury-Shanghai has no central heating, and every day I had huddled by Ashley's space heater to warm my hands. Peter, a Brit from Manchester, is a good friend of Al's. They worked together at the Xin Hua news agency during the Beijing Olympics. After a cup of tea, Peter gave me a compass, a handy pocket map of the city he had picked up at Starbucks, and a couple of guidebooks. Then we wasted no time in seeing Beijing.

... you can't smell sewers. You can smell the toilets from 20meters away but that's a different matter! After some hard bargaining, plenty of ice coffees and some dinner we headed back. Miraculously there was no rain at all this day. We had a great time. Day 13 was going to be a walk to Moon hill but it rained and rained and Shayne was knackered so I read and he slept. For the evening we had booked to go and see a show that takes place on the water, set with a natural backdrop of karst ...

... checks...they did. During the Olympics, Beijing will have a lot of angry travelers if they do not change their draconian policies. Piece of advice...bring cash. Also retain your exchange receipts because you will need them later when you exchange back to your base currency. I only found this out reading the receipt handed to me at the airport. No one at the airport, hotel or bank mentioned this fact.

... to a Silk market, which is pretty much a Giant shopping mall of fake goods. They have so many purses, shirts, shoes, watches, fake ipods, fake everything. its in a place like this where i get REALLY good at bargaining. On the way back from the market we drove by the olympic park. The stadium is REALLY BIG and really cool looking. and the aquatic center looks like a bunch of bubbles. I wasn't able to get ...

... without having a massage! The next day, we played some badders and then got taken out for an amazing meal, there was so much food, it was really really nice and of course, they refused to let us pay anything! I showed Mike around Xianyang, it wasn't at it's best though as it had started raining, the 1st time in almost 6 months! We played some more badders in the eve, then the next morn, Mike flew back home and I went back to teaching my final weekend! Was a weird ...

... in your life. I had some pictures posted at www.changjiangunlimited.com. Just look for the Isle of Man pics under "Whats New". I got to see Giacomo Augostini at speed on an Agusta (I think) during the vintage race. But now I'm back in bremen waiting another 2 days for my bike to arrive so I can continue into Eastern Europe and the Baltics before entering Russia.