Qixing Express Hotel Wuhu

Quoi, déjà d'autres nouvelles? Mais que se passe-t-il? Eh bien voilà. Comme je l'ai mentionné la dernière fois, en fin de semaine dernière, j'ai eu le privilège d'être reçue chez la famille de mon ami à l'occasion du nouvel an chinois. Comme je l'avais mentionné la dernière fois aussi, cette fête est pour eux un peu comme notre Noel; très tradit...

shower song:- Korn-clown Today we visited my favourite garden, the lion forest garden, so called because the stones were supposed to look like lions. After the previous things we have seen with names like this that quite frankly needed the mind of an abstract artist to see, i was very skeptical as to whether or not these rocks would in fact be l...

Arriving in Suzhou today, a town famous for its beautiful gardens, we first visited the tiger hill gardens, which Dragon had never visited himself, since he is usually too time constrained. This is a real beautiful park which is heavily flower based, though the walking through the tranquil gardens was ruined by the fact my ankle has swollen up l...

In the five months we've been in Changzhou we've only managed a couple of pitiful day trips to Nanjing and Shanghai. Both of the big cities are within 2 hours journey and we think that's why we've left them til last -making sure we have seen the cities further a field first. Anyhow, our last day of teaching (though really just exam and study sup...

Today my school celebrated Teacher's Day. It's a national holiday in China because teachers are supposed to be venerated. The celebration at SIFLS consisted of a free dinner for the teachers and a performance put on mostly by students as well as a few teachers. I was one of the few "lucky" teachers that got to perform. The other teacher from the...

It's hard to believe I've spent over a week here; time has really flown. At first I wasn't sure if I really wanted to stay here at this school - the administration is pretty unorganized. But I decided to give it a shot, and so far I'm enjoying myself. Where am I? I'm in Suzhou, China, where I will be teaching conversational English to students i...

Although I woke up early this morning to pack in the sights of Nanjing before my train, I've spent the first couple hours looking into places to stay in Beijing and calling people back in the USA. It's nine o'clock, so I break away and make my way towards the Nanjing Massacre Museum. The woman at the hostel tells me the bus number to take so I s...

I boarded the train with about 50 others around 11:10pm. The hard seat section was much less full than I expected. Basically each bench was occupied by a really ragged person trying to lay down on it. After about a minute of watching this, I went to the conductor and upgraded to a bed for only Y39. Easy as pie, Sleep time...

I get up ar...

Today was Nanjing, the ancient Chinese capital which was founded around 437 B.C. It has many great sites, but was also host to one of the worlds' greatest atrocities, the Nanjing massacres of WWII. It's strange because in all of my studies and world history classes when we discussed WWII, we never really heard much about China's involvement, but...

OK, not going to look back on this city too favourably. Reasons being: 1. Train Trip from Suzhou. Get to the train station. Usual mass of touts trying to get you into their taxi, mini-bus, or to their hotel. Eventually shake them off and head towards the bus stop. Know that I need to get on bus #1 to take me to the area I need to then be able to...