Shangri-La Hotel Qingdao

This is Miss joanwang (joanwang@delta21.com)from QINGDAO DELTA CO LTD in china !
we recycle the waste rubbers all over the world ! we buy the rubber scraps from new tyre factory , they are rejected when new tire making . such as the UNVULCANIZED ...

... to us while we ate, and then brought out some type of liquor that looked and smelled like bourbon. He poured himself a while popcorn tub of it, then poured a shot size into a bowl and pushed it to Brett. At first, Brett looked at it questionably, but then finally tried a small sip after the guy took a big swig and we knew it was ok! The guy's bowl was sloshing over the whole time as he talked, and he kept saying "Chers" and drinking a ...

... et qu'il a du poignarder un mec avec un stylo une fois...

OUI. Comme Joe Pepsci dans Casino.

Autre lecon de la vie : Les Taiwanaises sont soumises comme les Japonaise, dans le Sud les femmes sont maigres comme des q-tips, la quantite de booty est directement proportionnelle a la proximite du Vietnam.

Je crois que John est ici pour les femmes.

Pour ce qui est de moi, la chastete avant tout. Juste hier j'ai ...

... in Qingdao a lot more than is generally the case in Jinan. One would think they hadn't seen foreigners before. I was surprised.

Secondly, the train trip to Qingdao upset me. So much land covered in concrete and *****umen, garbage, buildings and gactories everywhere, dirty air and sluggish brown rivers. Is this the price of 'development', of 'progress'? It is too high. Much too high. Poor China. Poor earth. Poor people. How ...

... laser cutting cutting plotter blade vinyl cutter plotters used vinyl cutter roland vinyl cutters vinyl cutter ...

... its beer, will give beer enthusiasts another reason to visit. The city has a beer themed restaurant where every dish and dessert is made with beer. Qi Shan, owner of the restaurant, says they not only have beer flavored meat, beer stewed fish and bear steamed duck on the menu, but beer ice-cream, beer cake and beer coffee are all bestsellers. Customers also sit around beer barrel-shaped tables while waiters wear clothes look like beer bottles.

yesterday, we ended up going to the aquarium. it was pretty pricey but it was pretty decent. and we got to see a show and lots of animals being fed. leah and i ended up staying at the sea lion exhibit for a good hour because the trainers were trying to teach them tricks and were feeding them at the same time. lots of opportunity to take some really nice pics.

today was filled with more hard selling. our first stop was some fish market where they were trying to sell us these liquid ...

... in fact existed here before the German Navy arrived? A panorama style picture on display in the Govenor's mansion (also a tourist attraction, of course, but for $2!) made it relatively clear: it was taken about 1904 and apart from what the Germans put up, there is nothing around. No slums, some vegetation, just European style buildings, and a nascent port. Later reading cleared it up for me: there really wasn't much here. Qingdao (or Tsingtao as the ...

... to their credit, do have it pretty rough. Some have to share glasses to see the board. Some are where they are because their parents bribed them in (so some teachers here claim). Some are just bad students and should be in remedial classes and not constantly embarrassed by the smart kids. They have daily mandatory study periods every night, where attendance is taken. They have two hour class periods for every class. They are taking three English language classes simultaneously ...

... around, we really are living the easy life now. Doing an awful lot of nothing, at not a great rate. But trying to put in a bit of Chinese study, although it's harder to get the practice now that we're not navigating around towns everyday. The college is even more laid back than us, however (in soooo many ways). We actually work nearly twice the hours of Chinese teachers (although we get paid much more). Our first conversation with the ...