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... tv's, an audi, and a BMW. This is not in any way typical, but I wasnt complaining.

One night we made dumplings together and another night we went out for beijing duck. It's very very good.

It must have been pretty comical to watch a 6'5'' white kid get led around the city by a little chinese girl, but Becky was a grade guide. (She recently graduated highschool and will attend university in Beijing.)

... Mr. Fu drops us off at the northern part of Shijiazhuang. We need to take a taxi to the north-western part where the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan expressway is. After getting stuck in traffic for nearly an hour we arrive at a reststop on the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan expressway. It's now dark and the only vehicles at the reststop are trucks. There's quite a few truck drivers eating at the restaurant at the reststop. We walk in, everyone stares at us, we smile and sits ...

... words
I chose- none of which went together very easily so I received some pretty
creative stories.

*Field Day/Relays outside- We met in the classroom- I drew
pictures on the board and explained “Run backwards race, 3-legged race,
piggyback ride race, and wheel barrel race” –Gave away the medals my mom sent
from home (mine and my brother’s soccer, cheerleading, basketball, golf awards)
Since all the students ...

... m either traveling or working a lot on the weekends, I usually never can but this Sunday I made a point not to schedule any lessons so could go. We took two cars out to Dragon Lake- about an hour outside the city. It was beautiful. We went on a speed boat, then went on a paddle boat, then caught some worm-fish things, had a nice picnic and relaxed by the water. It was great. Hoping to be able to go out with them again sometime before I leave. I really like both of their families.

Guilin China Travel China Attractions Yangshuo China Travel Located in the vicinity of the North China Plain, Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province, neighbors Beijing and Tianjin in the north, Bohai Sea in the east, and lies against the continuous Taihang Mountain in the west. Covering ...

... if they get to go to Australia to continue studying to be a hairdresser. I interviewed about 25 students- I had to rate their grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation and give them an overall score taking into consideration their presence during our conversation. Afterward, we had a group discussion and then they cut my hair :) All the students were really cool. We're hopefully gonna go out with them this weekend. Kara and I ...

... There are 2 people from our program teaching there so we're gonna meet up with them and explore the city. It'll be nice to have someone familiar with the area to show us around and I'm excited to hear how their experiences have been-compare living situations/teaching/night life/etc. It's a 35 hr train ride so we're buying "hard beds." There are several options for seats/beds which vary in price. Since we came to Shijiazhuang from Beijing on ...

... it) and preformed that for our part. All of the entertainment was very traditional so our pop/country song was very comical in the mixed of it all! It was a hug hit though and we were given flowers during our performance as well as fruit! It was crazy fun though- got the entire crowd clapping along with our song. After our preformance we were interviewed and had to explain the meaning of Achy ...

... attendants. It was really nice because the flight wasn't very full so we all had our own row to spread out. After about an hour into the flight, we were told we had to turn the plane around and go back to O'Hare because the plane was leaking Nitrogen and the smoke detectors weren't working (thought they checked those things before letting us get on, !?) When we got back to the airport, I called Kirk (our Drake coordinator) to let him know what was ...

... and revenues] for the "austere purity" of white marble.) Great Wall Moments: Generic comment: It's really, really big. Generic Westerner: As Austen & I waited for Robin & our friend Mars to catch up, a young Chinese gentleman with a camera approached us. He said that one of his companions wanted his picture taken with me. I wasn't sure how to respond but could see no harm so agreed. Then, he said that their two females traveling companions also wanted a ...