Suns.Amat Hotel Shijiazhuang

After meeting up with the other english teachers arriving at the beijing International Airport. We took a 6 hour busride to Shijiazhuang. This city is the sister city to Des Moines, IA and although it is nearly unheard of in the US it has a population greater than US cities like Chicago. <br>We arrived around 11:00 at night and checked into the university. Luke and I went outside looking around as opposed to ...

... 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. <br><br>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 ...

... obsessed with the Beijing Olympics, it was fun to<br>pretend like we were having our own Olympic games. <br><br>*Who Wants to be a Millionaire-made up questions about things<br>we&#8217;ve gone over throughout the year, things I&#8217;ve said about myself and my<br>family, and then had a bunch of random questions too like &#8220;How many spiders<br>does the average person eat in their life?&#8221; and &#8220;Donald Duck can&#8217;t be on tv in<br>which ...

... 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.

... in Shijiazhuang. No one could have predicted that this small, unknown village would have developed rapidly into the modern capital city of Hebei Province. Lhasa China Travel Beijing China Travel China Hotels China Highlights China Tours Though it is a relatively young city, it is located ...

... in Shiz last year) quite a bit about everything there is to do and see in Beijing. They went like once a month while they were here. She gave me a ton of suggestions. She was also the one to tell me about the two books I bought before I left the states. One is a Mandarin phrasebook which I use every day and the other is "The Insider's Guide to Beijing." It has information about everything from food, shopping, and nightlife to how to ...

... served. They never gave us menus, we merely needed to look at the cart and point to what we wanted! We started off with duck heads since they are Angela's favorite and the reason we went to this place for dinner. When the heads came we were also given a plastic glove to help keep our hands clean as we pulled apart the duck. The heads were sliced laterally so you got some eyeball, tongue and brain in each piece. I tried ...

... since its in chinese symbols but im gonna ask helen to translate it for me cuz im curious) and after class they both came up and said "teacher alissa, we are very sorry, will you forgive please." they're so adorable- i think it'd take something really bad for me to actually be mad at em. another thing i noticed was that if they show up late (after the bell rings) they wait outside the doorway until you give them permission to enter. i like ...

... to finally watch other people struggle in the moving process because we have all been there so often. And to watch the interactions between the students and their parents or between the students and other students hit a universal chord with me. Everyone had a somewhat nervous laughter, the students were all talking about how heavy their books were as they set them down on multiple occasions, and the men chatted to one another over a cigarette and a pulled ...

... flight gear and staring out at us with a cockiness that comes with being 21 and in command of your own Spitfire. The elder's story as Maggie interpreted it was extraordinary. The photograph was of a U.S. pilot who had fought with the Chinese against the Japanese during WWII. The pilot's plane had been shot down by the Japanese over western Hebei and the elder, a farmer at the time, had rescued him and hidden him from the Japanese. He ...