Shangri La Hotel Chengdu

... choses qui se sont realiser a Chengdu en moins de 6 heures :

-En arrivant a la gare de train, y'a une petite madame avec une pancarte dans les airs qui dit : Free Pickup for Sim's Cozy Hostel. C'est notre auberge. On avait aucune idee que ce genre de service existait. Free ride! ROADTRIP!

-Chambre super confortable, avec NOTRE PROPRE TOILETTE-OCCIDENTAL-AVEC-POMMEAU-DE-DOU CHE-PIS-UN-DRAIN-DANS-LE-CENTRE-DE-LA-S ALLE-DE-BAIN. Ca ca veut dire que ...

... pres Y60 (10-12$), de quoi etre satisfait!


Pour notre premiere journee, on est alle a Emei Shan. Une tres belle montagne d'une altitude de 3099m. On en ressentait quand meme bien les effets; un peu de nausee, mais aussi la legere impression plutot amusante d'etre saoul. La montagne prend 3 jours a monter a pied, et puisqu'on a pas ce temps, on est monte au sommet en autobus et en cable car ...

... green! And that’s from a Washingtonian, haha.

Once we got back to the dorms we had a three hour break before they wanted us back downstairs to go to dinner. I debated taking a nap, but decided instead to watch the parts of the drama I was going to miss on TV tonight on the computer. I’d missed it Friday night too, so I had 4 hours to catch up with before Sunday night. Actually, after all the sleepiness on the bus, I was not feeling so sleepy anymore ...

... CHINA IN GRIEF Not far from the graveyard was remnant of the Xuankou Middle School, where a ceremony was held at 2:28 p.m., the exact time when many clocks stopped in the quake last year, when more than 19,000 lost their lives in the disaster. The ceremony was attended by Chinese President Hu Jintao and Vice Premier Li Keqiang. In front of a white sculpture of a symbolic clock, all those inside the commemoration venue stood in silent tribute, before China's national ...

... movement of their hand or cloak - very impressive. We managed to visit the Panda's at the Chengdu Breeding Centre as we were initally aiming to see them at Wolong National Reserve Park in the wild, but it had been badly affected by the earthquake in the summer and therefore had been relocated. The breeding centre itself was pretty impressive with big expansion plans for 2010, it is already a huge site with tall bamboo lined paths that lead the way to each enclosure ...

... electronic dictionary. I was planning on it but waiting till my money came in, but after last night I was reconsidering. Sang (my classmate) told me that he was going back to Tech Tower (a HUGE technology mega store thing) where he got a good deal yesterday. He proceeds to tell me all the good deals he has finagled since arriving including but not limited to top of the line bikes, computers and translators. So after class four of us went down to Tech Tower which can really ...

... Everyone ended up eating a meal and then we were back to walking around. We told Jimmy that we would like to get back to room to get cleaned up for dinner and to maybe take a nap. We made plans to go to dinner at 6 o'clock. We didn't know where we would be going for dinner, but we were told that everything at this restaurant was taken from the wild. Nothing was raised on a farm or bought from a store. They apparently go out to ...

... much lighter. I discovered another plus of driving a motorcycle instead of a car... I don't have to pay highway tolls! As I approached the toll booth, a motorcycle in front of me swerved to the far right side of the road and drove through a space just wide enough for a bike to go through. I followed him. When in China, do as Chinese do, right? The toll booth operator barely glanced at me as I drove past the ...

... entrance price is somewhat disproportionate. Even though the museum is very good (although there's a disappointing lack of Chinglish throughout), I'm not sure how they justify the 82 kuai entrance ticket here when the Warriors cost only 60 to visit. Or maybe I'm just bitter because they wouldn't accept my (fake) student card. The museum complex is spread over quite a large area, though the actual exhibition halls are quite small, and only one of them (the smallest) actually holds ...

... town. I mostly just hung out with friends and caught up on homework and resting. It is the only break we get all semester. We don't even get one day off from now on. Chinese people are much harder working, in general. At the restaurants and shops we go to, it is always the same people working. It makes me wonder if they ever get even one day a week off. Calligraphy and cooking class are kind of hard. They are both an art ...