New Era Hotel Xuzhou

... Cest vraiment joli. On decouvre maintenant la Chine typique avec les chinois qui nous sourient timidement en nous voyant. Nous navons pas vu de famine ni de mendiant. Cest vraiment tres different de lInde

Nous sommes dans le sud et ici il y a plein de verdure compare au nord ou tout etait plutot sec.

A la prochaine

Daniel et Julie

... to imagine what I would be doing if I had not come back to China, then pushed that thought from my head and tried not to think about my brother or the fact that he’s going off to war soon. I sat up after a while and talked to Stephanie about music. That night I woke up numerous times, my hips digging into the hard bed, my shoulder crunched under me, cold, hot.

In the morning, Stephanie offered to leave me to write while she visited her grandparents. Of all her family, I ...

... there, his descendents did, and it was the least interesting one =p)
The forrest was really cool! and anyone related to Confucious can be buried there, its a man made forrest and full of neat stuff and giant green things!

this weekend i'm headed off to inner mongolia with some people from my program! I'll put up an entry and pictures when i get back!
love and miss you all :)

... that a son must respect father, wife must respect husband, commoner must respect official, official must respect ruler etc. The essence of its teachings are obedience, respect, selflessness and working for the common good. You would think that this code would have fit in nicely into the new order of communism, yet it was swept aside because of its connections with the past. Confucius was ...

... from room to room humming and haring just to **** him off more. It didn’t work at the longer he was awake the happier he became and soon we were sharing a cup of green tea outside the hotel a the cabbies silently slept the early hours away.

After paying for a night I did some hand washing, showered and fell asleep until mid afternoon.

When I woke I felt refreshed and so happy that I didn’ ...

... spots to pay tribute to the heavens for the last 3000 years of so, and, if the number of people heading up it on a cloudy February morning is anything to go by, its popularity is certainly not waning . The climb itself is completed almost entirely by trudging up solidly constructed steps. Initially I thought this sounded like cheating, but when you find out that there are approximately 6660 of the said steps en route to the summit, it still takes some doing ...

... out of their way to help you.

On the way back, Mum recognised a dumpling restaurant near my house, so we jumped off the bus and made it home about an hour or so earlier than if we had gone all the way back to the central station. How Mum managed to recognise the place even though unable to read any of the signs when I could not, despite living there for six months and being able to read Chinese is a) really embarrassing and b) a sign of how terribly vague I have become!

It was a great week we started combined decoration but it didn't look to exciting to me so I just continued working on my previous work. Bob came in this week he is the Prof. from WVU who runs this program. It was great to see him again he is helping to fix any problems that we had here and we went out for a nice dinner monday night to a Mongolian restaurant. The kiln was finally fired and I got all of my pieces out something turned out great but one of the ...

Hmm, well I think we just had the most bizarre few days of our trip, which is really saying something. We've found post offices that don't post things, banks that can't give out money, "major" tourist centres that don't have tourist information centres, houses without power, tourist attractions without any tourists, buses that don't go anywhere, "ancient" artefacts being made, and people farming ...

... arrived we spent half an hour finding a hotel and then a lady took us right there. It was in a small street at the end of a small alley. We tried looking for a tea-house which has been closed for years. We eventually found it, but couldn't go in. Raymond's Travel Page