Oriental Hotel Shijiazhuang

... hui ren (black person) and took a picture because it was so rare. We thought this was pretty funny, and greed to pose in a few pics with people from the city. <br><br>One night i ran into some Spanish teachers from Spain, but they were unfriendly so are chat was very brief. <br><br>The city has better weather than beijing. The polution was thinner and some days you could see blue sky! <br><br>For two nights we ...

... 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 ...

... needed- Jack translated everything of course. <br>These guys could DRINK! By noon they had finished off 10 bottles of<br>baijiu. They kept insisting that I drink with them but since I had to teach in<br>the afternoon, I got away with only having to do a few- thank god, I hate<br>baijiu. <br><br> Some of you know about Mickey- used to work for him downtown<br>on a regular basis. His company went bankrupt and he said he needed more time<br>to pay me. Although ...

Peanut Butter and Jelly Day :) *We decided to bring a little taste of the West to our Middle School by making over a thousand peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and distributing them during the students lunch time. It was crazy! We had Willie and our friend John controlling the crowd and Kara and I handed out sandwiches. It was a lot of fun until we got in trouble by the school because theres a rule against it.. even though we told them all about what we were going to do.. ehh ...

... 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 ...