Shijiazhuang Huabei Hotel

... a noodle dish.

Luke and I went back another night, but lacked the mandarin to order the noodles, but we managed to get the lamb and some chinese beers. That same night we also managed to catch a live crab that was escaping from th restaurant. This was extremely entertaining for the other diners.

There are not alot of foriegners in Shijiazhuang. We were a real novelty. When luke was outside some ...

... no I goes out the the parking lot and intercepts each driver as they go to the covenient store and the bathrooms. Two hours goes by and we had asked about 30 set of drivers with no success.

It's 10:30pm. Finally just as I am about to give up I see two guys standing close to Liu Chang. They must be truck drivers. I go up to them, offers them some cigarettes from Germany I brought with me, sweet talks them into giving us a ride. Fortuantely they are ...

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*Biography Art- brought in all my magazines, told them to use
words and pictures that describe themselves.

I usually have some kind of gift to give to the students that are participating a lot or won the game- things ranging from crayons and candles to headphones and baseball hats. Since going through my apartment and deciding what to bring home, I’ve added to my gift collection so this next week I’m going to have a raffle.

... house. The live in a storage unit where they sell children's books. We made dumplings and Willie got drunk with the grandpa. Kara and I bought some fun books- I want to give em to the kids I tutor as going away gifts because a lot of em are in Chinese and English. I think Young Young would really like one for her son too. Day of Fun in the Sun with Sunny and Jassi's families *I teach these two little girls and their moms always ask me do things with them but because ...

... which lies to the west, provide charming natural scenery. Mt. Cangyan Scenic Area and Zhangshiyan Scenic Area also attract visitors from all over China and the world. As the economic, political, cultural and scientific center of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang is becoming more and more ...

Since we've been back from our big trip, I've been a teach-aholic. On top of my Mon-Fri job at 42 Middle School, I've been teaching several new people though Mickey's Company, meeting with Young Young 4 nights a week, teaching at a new Foreign Language School 3-4 nights a week, and teaching at a Kindergarten twice week. My middle school students have been much better lately. They're still ridiculously loud and I still have ...

... left and right. Here when someone says "gambei" it means "bottoms up" so you have to finish your drink. Most of the time it's with baijui but this time it was a mix with red wine as well. It was the first time I'd had grape wine since being here so i had no problem cheersing with it :) Everyone at our table was so busy talking and gambei-ing that no one really ate much of the expensive food in front of us. Today we had class and packed ...

... tiny, pot-filled street while other cars and people tried to pass us by. Once a motorcycle/bike got to close to our bus and totally wiped out- opps. One the way we passed a castle- I immediately thought of Mariah because this would be her dream home! After an hour ride we arrived at our apparent destination. I got out and was amazed by the beauty of the countryside! There were mountains off in the ...

... we're the only ones living in the apt building right now we werent using any electronics. when we went out that night we unplugged everything and the next morning helen had electricians come look at everything. they were in our apts ALL DAY fixing things. We woke up early today and took our computers to the school to see if the computer guys there could figure out what the problem was but they coudlnt so helen took em to a repair shop ...

... was university vehicle. In Beijing, we arrived at the Jingshi Hotel (the Center for International Academic Excellence) on the campus of Beijing Normal University (BNU). BNU sits right in the city, just north of the city center. It has about 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students. We were hosted by Professor Ru-de Liu, a classmate and friend of my colleague Min Li at the UW. The Jingshi Hotel is new, very modern - a contrast to the our hotel in Shijiazhuang which ...