Overseas Chinese Hotel Wenzhou

... scary and I'm just so relieved that she is better. Oh, and in case you were wondering, 2 days of IV (including the antibiotic) plus the doctor’s appointment cost about 13 USD.


Despite Elise’s illness, we very much enjoyed staying in Qingtian for 9 days. That was the longest we stayed in one place for the whole trip. Add to that: our generous relatives who helped with celebrating the holiday, treated us to ...

... assume that I am from here, that I married a foreigner (since the kids are obviously not 100% Chinese), and that we had the kids overseas. They think we’re just back visiting family or that the kids are being brought up here, so that they speak Chinese and the local Qingtian dialect. It is actually quite refreshing to see all the babies and toddlers and families with more than one child.

... in the city. We actually used Roman candles, firecrackers, M-80s and some cones that made awesome spark displays. Roman candles shoot fireballs with a firecracker in the center that blew up after shot. The firecrackers we set off individually and sometimes we emptied out the gunpowder onto a rock and lit it for a big flare. M-80s are sticks of dynamite that could blow up a hand. Last of all, the cones shot green colored sparks.

... medicine doctor, so he was well respected and made more money than others in the town. You can still see the frame of the old house on each side. They rebuilt the middle (white) section and one of my mom’s cousins lives there now.

This is a picture of the back alleyway of the house. It used to be the main road when my mom was little. This ...

... of it. Many people from Qingtian have been moving overseas, starting businesses, and mailing money back to their families, so we’ve found this "small city" to be relatively cosmopolitan! There are many overseas Qingtian people living mostly in Europe. We’ve heard people speaking fluent Spanish, French and German here. Actually very few go to America, so we haven’t heard any English!

On Sept. 4 China has "Teacher's Day" where students bring in cards and stuff to their teachers. My big question is why we have to work on Teacher's Day but meh, it's cute. There was a little party after work for the English teachers and they gave the four of us at our school some presents and cards and we played games.

I got lucky and I get to stay in my own classroom, which is nice, considering my schedule is really ****** and so ...

... that looked like it was from Happy Feet. Two steps later I realized it was missing an arm, so I ran back and took the first thing that wasn`t broken and was relatively clean which happened to be a monkey (w0ot!)

There was a many following us around the park and trying to get his kid to say `hello` to us. The kid was not amused.

... black outside and there are a lot of tall apartment buildings being constructed. So all I saw in the dark were tall dark half-finished apartment buildings – it looked so much like we were driving through a futuristic post-apocalyptic city, like in Dark Angel.

The building we were going to be living in looked incredibly scary in the dark. There were security gates and bars everywhere – it looked ...

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