Swiss Hotel Dalian

Ok, I did it, I ate some western food. I still haven't eaten at McDonalds or KFC yet. KFC is everywhere. I wonder if they were the first American chain to come to China. McDonalds are prolific as well. No, my roommate and his friends wanted to go out for a western meal and we headed down to a place called "The Real Eddies" Not sure of the story behind the name. But here goes - Eddie was trained as a cook/chef in the ...

... ship and I noticed it was open today, but now because I had the bike, I couldn’t walk up to it. There was one more road but it had some barriers set up. Maybe I can ride up there and come out by the space ship. I thought I would give it a try. I started riding through the parking lot and up to that road and just as I entered, I heard someone yell behind me. I don’t know what they yelled but by the way they yelled, it sounded like – Don’t go up there. I turned ...

... to Chinese cities. It's centred around what's called Zhongshan square (in English and Mandarin -- although it's actually a circle), which is surrounded by early 20th century architecture: think pilasters, columns, cornices, etc. My hotel is situated just off this square-circle-shape; essentially faded grandeur: a huge high-ceilinged suite, with the electrics hanging down the wall, the smoke alarm casually placed on the windowsill, and ...

... slang for bimbo) stakes&#8230; nowadays, I may well make the grade.<br><br>Offloading the books (which still haven't arrived in Jinan 2 weeks later, I might add) took up a fair bit of time because I am out of writing practice so it took me ages to write my address in Chinese. This meant that I had to catch a taxi to the airport bus stop, instead of a bus, to save time. This ended up being rather ironic, since my flight was delayed by an hour. The flight stopped in ...

... of the owner, who is also the school&#8217;s librarian, told us how long it took him to teach the local bakery to make real hamburger buns, both in shape and taste&#8212;they couldn&#8217;t understand why he didn&#8217;t want sugar in the recipe like their sweet buns.<br><br>It is amazing what kind of impact &#8216;comfort&#8217; food can have when you are travelling, or away from home.<br><br>Yum... cheese.<br><br>~Ashley

... br><br>He picked up his calculator and typed in 60 x 15... he wanted Y60 PER shirt, not total. The Y900 was more than our entire t-shirt and printing budget, the other student had gotten the first 30 shirts for less than Y180, I was mad. We tried our best to argue that we had agreed to Y60 we were even willing to pay a little more, but to absolutely no avail, and we ended up walking away empty handed. Here I thought I was good at negotiating.<br><br>~Ashley<br><br>

It is Heidi first full day of teaching, and we are launching our Stock Market Game. The premise is simple, randomly handout six cards to every student that is either $100 or a stock (A,B,C,D) explain to them the goal of the game is to amass the most wealth that they can. It works best with two people, because one person can be in charge of randomly changing the price of stocks (all going up) and the other can be the bank, loaning out $1000 for every $100 of insurance ...

... perfect products imaginable. In order to get bad food in a place like Rome, you have to got to something inspired by an American chain. In unbelievable contrast, China's food is about as attractive as mattress stuffing. It's indescribable how uniniviting the food is here. I saw something in the market this week that looked like ground up ...

... busy 24 hours per day, like rush hour without the hour. Dalain is very proud of its port and shipbuilding industry. Dalian is China's 3rd largest port, behind Hong Kong and Shanghai area ports. Total 2002 cargo value through Dalian port was US$20.6 billion - US$9.15 billion import, US$11.45 billion export. The Westen docks of the port/shipyard are the ones with the orange cranes to the right of center in my ...

... had enough after an hour or so, so i climbed up to my top bunk and fell asleep pretty fast. i woke to the sound of bai ling, (not that she was loud or anything), and found that i had slept most of the journey. we arrived in haerbin at 7am and upon leaving the train station tried to locate someone to get us a hotel. now usually these people offering hotels are mobbing you around train stations but not today. maybe the snow had put them off but i doubt it. anyway we ...