Taihu Golf Hotel Suzhou

... train is being built between Shanghai and Beijing. It will cover the 1100 miles in 4 hours and will be quite an impressive structure. New freeways were being built all over as well. <br><br>Joe explained that 30 years ago, nothing was there except rice paddies. The city and the country have really changed since they opened their doors to the rest of the world in the 1980s. <br><br>It&#8217;s nice to have free internet in our Holiday Inn hotel!

... some oranges and apples for the day. A large bag of mandarin oranges and a few apples will usually cost about 10RMB, or around $1.75CAN. &#8216;What a great bargain.' I think as I hand the shopkeeper the money realizing though that the local residents probably pay only half that price. Right across the street is the mini-vegetable market. All kinds of vegetables are laid out on the pavement of the street for the ...

Suzhou<br><br><br><br>It is gloriously warm in Suzhou as we make our way to the central park. We find ourselves in "pet shop alley". I am tickled by a minah bird outside a shop which greets us with &#8220;Ni hao&#8221;, We understand the &#8221;Hello,&#8221; but unfortunately can't follow the rest of the bird&#8217;s chat. We meander past the fish tanks and flower sellers but then, unfortunately, our route takes us out of the pedestrian area ...

... this school is to go to university in Canada or the States.<br><br>The facilities are pretty good. The campus is absolutely beautiful. The school has an observatory (never used), a 1000 seat auditorium (hardly used), a great gym (never used), a fantastic outdoor field with stadium and track (definately used), outdoor tennis court, volleyball courts, and about 15 outdoor basketball courts (definately used). Our school is currently renting facilities ...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!! I'm dressing up *s * pir*te / cr*cked out gypsy loh*n, it's pretty legend*ry. Tonight were going to Pulp Fiction, who *re ridiculously nice *nd giving free beer to everyone who is dressed up. It should get f*irly rowdy. App*rently none of the chinese dress up so it's b*sic*lly drunk exp*ts flooding b*r street cre*ting *ll sorts of shen*n****ns. <br>H*ve *n *wesome h*lloween!!! <br>-B

... things, starting with all of the traveling we had done back in Canada, and then getting evacuated from our house during the fire, and saying all of our goodbyes to friends and family and getting all of our things in order, and cleaning our own house from top to bottom, and packing, and then traveling half way around the world. It all kind of hit us at that time. It was a pretty low moment. Bethany turned to me and said, 'Is my contract for a year? I think she wanted to catch the ...

... ist es all**dings einen Garkuechenkoch dabei zu sehen, wie ** seine Fussnaegel mit seinem Kochmess** schneidet!! <br>Ueb** die Toiletten in Asien haben wir ja schon oeft** geschrieben. Besond**s hi** in China ist uns ab** aufgefallen, dass fu** Chinesen eine oeffentliche Toilette keinesfalls ein still** Ort ist und auch Intimspha**e ist nicht unebedingt ein muss. Viele Toiletten (im Grunde einfach eine Rinne im Boden haben nicht einmal eine Tu** und auch wenn eine ...

... that to be alone means to be like an independent flea on a creature. That's exactly how I feel at times, I am the independent flea and my host is China. Most other fleas like to get together and complain about the host, But I've joined a minority group that likes the host. Unfortunately they are currently all away on holiday so I am Du/alone. Happy Chinese NewYear.

... another Suzhou pagoda -- Auspicious Light Pagoda. We end up at Carrefour, the second one to open in Suzhou, and it was actually on Thursday. (The balloons are still out.) I have never been to Carrefour and Ben describes it as the French Wal-Mart. It is one of the few places that you can shop where you don't have to bargain. I buy mostly baby clothes.

... Our community outreach could include working with local universities to design education programs that would increase the pool of applicants with the skills needed to succeed at Televerde. At a recent job fair in SIP, 100,000 people showed up for 10,000 job opening. Set-up would not require a significant drain on current human resources. Sending one, maybe two key players to China initially and then hiring local talent immediately to assist with implementation and on-going ...