Oriental Hotel Shijiazhuang

... a noodle dish.

Luke and I went back another night, but lacked the mandarin to order the noodles, but we managed to get the lamb and some chinese beers. That same night we also managed to catch a live crab that was escaping from th restaurant. This was extremely entertaining for the other diners.

There are not alot of foriegners in Shijiazhuang. We were a real novelty. When luke was outside some ...

... Mr. Fu drops us off at the northern part of Shijiazhuang. We need to take a taxi to the north-western part where the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan expressway is. After getting stuck in traffic for nearly an hour we arrive at a reststop on the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan expressway. It's now dark and the only vehicles at the reststop are trucks. There's quite a few truck drivers eating at the restaurant at the reststop. We walk in, everyone stares at us, we smile and sits ...

... I’m never
going to get it and I just have to take this as a learning experience. Although
I’m upset about it, I’ve done everything I can so I’m just letting it go now. I
believe karma and that makes me feel a little bit better, ha.

I’ve continued to teach at Ai Hua, Ugly Duckling
Kindergarten and Jessi’s School and meet with Young Yang, Sunny &Jassi, and
Peter- sad to say goodbye to ...

... biggie, we were almost out anyway. Birthday and Marriage *Went to a nice restaurant and had sushi for Sam's bday. It was soo good- I've missed sushi. Our Chinese friend Eileen surprised me with a text message that said she got married and she wanted us to meet her husband. So we went to "the boat restaurant" to celebrate Grandma & Grandpa *Our new friend John (lives in our apt building and is helping the new Korean students get adjusted) invited us to have dinner at his ...

... area of 15.8 thousand square kilometers (6100.4 square miles), it has 6 districts, 12 counties, 5 county-level cities and 1 national-level new and high-tech development zone under its prefecture. Shijiazhuang has a population of 9.395 million, 2.313 million of whom live in the urban area ...

... I think my plate is a bit too full at the moment. Young Young has continued to impress me. She passed her first post-graduate exam and will take her second one in May. She's back to work now so her schedule is also very busy but she's always full of energy when she gets here at 8pm. Our friend Jason who worked full time at a Foreign Language school is now back in the states so Kara, Willie and I have taken over for him ...

... my camera and caught the last bit of the jumping before I unplugges it. Thought I could turn the video like you can a picture but it wont let me so you'll have to look at it sideways. After cleaning up the mess and getting frustrated from writing quite a bit in my blog then having my computer freeze and losing everything, i decided to watch a movie only to discover that my dvd player was also possessed and didn't work. Mr. Dong came over today ...

... celebrate the moon...so I opened my dumb mouth and just said that we have a moon called the harvest moon. I think I only know this because I grew up on a farm. It is the moon that comes out in October or November that is really big, orange, and low to the ground. Anyway, that is really all I said about it. Then we see our picture in the paper and i have Helen translate what the article says. The article had this huge section that talked about how my father is a farmer and ...

... with it but if i cant figure it out im just gonna buy a cell phone here- not too expensive. went back to the first restaurant we went to and ordered three new dishes (got suggestions from Helen and then used my phrasebook)- 2/3 were awesome! definitely get them again- slices of potatoes with vinegar and some kind of meat that tasted like sweet and sour chicken. after lunch we went downtown and walked around a bit then came back and went to the ...

... better or worse, will solve its pollution problems more quickly than the U.S. - in part because there is no ideological-motivated disagreement as to the cause and cure of pollution and global warming as we have in the U.S. (the other side of this is the lack of opportunity to express dissenting views ....). President Hu has made this a cronerstone of his domestic policy and it seems to have almost universal support. Just a few kilometers from the ...