New Century Suzhou

... bus and we took an hour and a half bus ride to Suzhou. Most of us in the group had never heard of Suzhou, but it has been around for a while. In fact, it was founded over 2500 years ago! Marco Polo visited here and called it the Venice of the East. The Grand Canal, which at over 1100 miles is the longest canal in the world, runs past Suzhou and connects to the moat around the old city of Suzhou. Suzhou is considered a small city, since it ...

... side of the street are homes, shops, eating establishments, hair salons, a scooter mechanic shop, a small hotel, and many street vendors. It seems like the entire neighborhood is out on the street every morning getting ready for the day. As we turn onto the street we often see a little old lady hunched over as she works on her small garden plot beside the road. A few more meters and we pick up the pace as we pass the ...

... br>I am not sure if I have always been a bit of a wimp at crossing the road. I grew up in a small village but did move to the big city when I was 12 and don’t remember being traumatised. Maybe the Tufty club did a good job or maybe it was just the sense of immortality that the young have. It was many years later that Julie pointed out that my desire to hold her hand as we crossed the road was more for my benefit than hers as she had ...

... this school is to go to university in Canada or the States.<br><br>The facilities are pretty good. The campus is absolutely beautiful. The school has an observatory (never used), a 1000 seat auditorium (hardly used), a great gym (never used), a fantastic outdoor field with stadium and track (definately used), outdoor tennis court, volleyball courts, and about 15 outdoor basketball courts (definately used). Our school is currently renting facilities ...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!! I'm dressing up *s * pir*te / cr*cked out gypsy loh*n, it's pretty legend*ry. Tonight were going to Pulp Fiction, who *re ridiculously nice *nd giving free beer to everyone who is dressed up. It should get f*irly rowdy. App*rently none of the chinese dress up so it's b*sic*lly drunk exp*ts flooding b*r street cre*ting *ll sorts of shen*n****ns. <br>H*ve *n *wesome h*lloween!!! <br>-B

... her family was sent out to the hinterlands, and lived apart for 6 years. Her father was a phsycis professor, and was made to publicly humiliate himself standing behind a counter with a dunce hat and telling everyone he was an idiot or things to that effect. more later today we are off to the Jade buddha temple in Shanghai, and then off to 4 days on the yangtze, so don't know if we'll have internet or not.

Hello everybody! I hope everyone is doing well! As you can see I have decided to make a blog so you all can read about my time in China and see pictures and all the great stuff!! My goal is to try to post once a week, but we will see if that actually happens. I haven't really had a chance to rest since I have got here. Between sighseeing registration,  and four hour long card games, by the time I get to my room all I want to do is sleep. And school hasn't even started yet! That ...

... someone is where they want to be, that's where they want to be or that's what they want to photograph so they just move on in and strangely it's just accepted. It really is like....it's so hard for me to comprehend the different ways we think sometimes. It really is like there is no thought involved, its part of life, as always been that way so it's like ...

... of course, is relative. The bikes just mentioned are now considered ****ing masterpieces of the biking universe following the abysmal excuse for a bicycle ("the Piece of ****") that I hired from the hostel. Colour? Faded pink. Basket? Hole in the bottom. Left brake? Doesn't work. Right brake? Barely works. Wheels? Squeaky. Chair? Rocky. Steering? Rocky. The most amusing part is that it was the best bike on offer, the alternatives seemingly ...

... sur la proue, dorees). Nous n'etions que 7 rares occidentaux a bord du ferry : deux kines anglaises rejoignant la Nouvelle-Zelande, et quatre canadiens mais j'ai pas trop bien compris ce qu'ils disaient parce qu'ils machaient tous leur chewing-gums comme si la marche du bateau en dependait. On a embarque a Chongqing le soir. J'ai tout de suite achete mon billet pour le pont superieur (4.5 euros qui en valent raiment la peine) ou j'ai passe ensuite le plus clair de mon temps. Les ...