Rest Hotel (Fuding Haixiang)

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Well, I jinxed myself by saying that no one had been in the hospital yet, Elise had to go in to get fluids and antibiotics. We think she drank some water in her bath, because she threw up and had diarrhea all night. (Everyone else was fine and we had all eaten the same food.) She continued to throw up all day and the following night, so that 36 hours later, she needed some IV fluids and she was running a slight fever so the doctor ...

... 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.

... that blew sparks and the kids enjoyed setting those off over the river to celebrate the Moon Festival. They don’t really set off firecrackers for the Moon Festival, it was just his excuse to get them for the kids. (They set them off at New Year’s in February.) It’s against the law to set them off in the downtown area, but since my relatives live outside of town, it’s ok there as long as they let the ...

My mom's relatives (first cousins and their families) were so 'keqi’, generous and kind. They invited us over for lunch and dinner, cooking fabulous 17 course meals! We got to see my greatgrandfather’s house (where my grandfather grew up, and my mom came to visit when she was a child). The house is outside of Qingtian city about 10-15 minutes ...

... 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 ...

... 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.

... lost and we made our way out the door with our bags. Luckily for me that I travel with a small 28 Litre pack that really doesn't weigh much more than a day pack with an LP, some lunch and some water in it. The first stop for the day was Guanlin Si (temple). Wegrabbed Bus No: 81 and headed back along Daonan Lu, past The White Horse Temple to a large ...

... are also invisible. This means that even if I believe I have hunted down and killed every last mosquito in my room before going to sleep, I will still wake up with at least three fresh mosquito bites. I have five on my body right now. They itch like the Dickens! I hate you, wenzi! Hate you! The second thing that causes me daily anguish is "ting xie," translated into English as "dictation." It literally means, "listen write." Ting xie is an educational torture tool employed by the ...