Mercure Teda Dalian

... meal cost 32 yuan. When I compare it to American prices, it is less than $5 so I should be fine with that. But to compare it to China meal prices it is quite expensive.<br><br>As a bonus I am adding some KFC pictures. This is taken in Dalian and my western friends call it the KFC church. Because ... it looks like a Church. None of the others look like this one. So, I wanted to share it with you. Enjoy...<br><br><br>

... a close look at the blue street sign and you will see the road to the seashore bathing place. That is the beach to you and me. I really can&#8217;t figure out why China doesn&#8217;t hire a few foreigners who can speak and read Chinese. Their full time job could be to translate for signs and advertisements. They seem to want to have things translated into English, so why not do it correctly? Oh well. I can&#8217;t do it so I will just take pictures of the signs that amuse me.<br><br>I ...

... rather ironic and confusing symbolism, but perhaps memory fails: please do comment on this if you know about such biological matters. In Yantai I'm staying in paradoxically the cheapest but nicest hotel of my current trip. And I've just had a divine bowl of fish-and-pickled-cabbage soup. The restaurant was small and very scruffy, but the food was glorious, and the place was filled with a charming, down-to-earth family simplicity. So all is well.

... that I would feel happier living on the coast. Even after I made the decision to stay working in Jinan, I figured I would go to Dalian for a weekend to relax at the beach at some stage. The weekend never came around, until arrived in Shenzhen. So, fleeing the humidity of the south, I packed my bags and headed for the airport, for a flight to Dalian.<br><br>Unfortunately, on the way to the bus stop, I decided my pack was much too heavy and lugging it around was ...

... closer to the beach area and I didn't have to walk as far to get to that road that I was looking for. Now I get it, there was construction before as they were repaving the road. With that finished, the buses could run their regular route. Great! I hopped off the bus and made my way to that road and once I arrived, I started to jog up the hill. I noticed several people walking up the hill or sitting on the side of the road and ...

... our faces, necks and shoulders. It was heaven.<br><br>It wasn&#8217;t until he started moving to my arms, that I realized that my masseuse may be blind, as he had to 'look&#8217; around with his fingers to find the part of my arm he was looking for. At one other point, when he started to massage my arm, he let my hand fall in his lap&#8212;and I instantly tensed&#8212;not because I was in an inappropriate place, but more ...

... I felt more at home. So I tried to encourage them to think about design, what they want the t-shirt to say, or represent... I drew an example on the board of a simple combination of &#8216;E&#8217; and &#8216;A&#8217; and that was it, they were sold. I would have changed things around and been a little more creative if I knew I was suggesting ideas rather than suggesting examples... Oh well. Next challenge, teach the students how to use InDesign from scratch in ...

It is Heidi first full day of teaching, and we are launching our Stock Market Game. The premise is simple, randomly handout six cards to every student that is either $100 or a stock (A,B,C,D) explain to them the goal of the game is to amass the most wealth that they can. It works best with two people, because one person can be in charge of randomly changing the price of stocks (all going up) and the other can be the bank, loaning out $1000 for every $100 of insurance ...

... of stalls selling food, clothes and housewares. There is also a lot of construction of all types and levels. Workmen sawing, welding, painting, and upholstering in their makeshift sidewalk workshops across the street from cranes moving 10 ton loads of steel up to the 40th floor. The level of manual labor here continues to astound me. For the last 2 weeks, a crew has dug, set, covered and paved a utility trench near my apartment ...

... of Russians working here. Dalian is also very close to North Korea, and there are buses that will take you the China-N. Korea border, but we didn't have time to go. Click for pictures: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Binh.Trie u/DalianFeb2007 And a Video of Diana playing the Chinese Top: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiykYqEd 12k