Teem Ease Hotel Guangzhou

... before we became too familiar. We recovered at a coffee bar and 7 eleven with a couple of slurpies and would be retail threapy but sarah packed too much stuff alreadly... WE all told her so. now were sucking on a sugar cane stick and she insists she feels alot better, but thats what she said this morning about the 'fresh' air, and it indeed is ''fresh''! pictures to come, wish sarah well, the poor little dumpling...

... place that had no english menu, and we got what we wanted, dumplings! we are going to a black market today, were we could buy puppies and monkeys if we wanted! and we do! tonight we are catching a sleeper bus to guilin.

ohh and simon got in trouble from the police for taking bananas across the border, and got a special stamp in his passport for disobeying the law!

zai jian!
good bye

Enjoyed our meetings and colleagues. Went to dinner at a typical Guangdong/Canton restaurant. Menu was very creative. Plenty of exotics - baby pigeon, sting ray, fish guts, beetles, snakes, chicken feet. Was a bit naseous, but likely because of jet lag.

... doesn't speak English nor does the lead of the sim-card mafia, but he jumps in the front seat after I negotiate 200 yuan for the ride into the city using the hotel's chinese character address. Guess he just made commission on me. 30 minutes to GZ city center

Guangzhou was thankfully pretty uneventful except for this one little episode I thought I'd share...

Because of the 'swine flu' or H1N1 virus most of the border control areas scan your body as you walk through with your passport. I wouldn't have even noticed this had it not been for Ollie getting pulled aside for his very 'high temperature'. He was immediatley carted off while I had to go through immigration and wait for ...

... Americans for their land, and cannot find a permanent home. They finally move up into the San Bernardino Mountains. Alessandro loses his mind. He is in town one day and rides off on the horse of an American. The man follows him home and shoots him.
In the meantime, Se帽ora Moreno has died. Felipe finds Ramona and they are married. They leave to live in Mexico.

... and it is beautiful! It costs five Yuan to enter and like the Orchard Garden, can be reached by taking the metro to Yuexiu Gongyuan station. Its lush greens flow over acres of hills and includes several very clean lakes. It includes the Ming Dynasty Zhenhai Tower which is now home to the City Museum with relics dating back to the 15th century along with ...

It used to be common to see lots of folk from Africa doing business in Guangdong. Now most are either out, holed up in Hong Kong, or in jail. What's going on? Did China discover those new friends didn't have so much oil after all? Ghanaians Face Expulsion From China Hundreds of Ghanaians who embarked on a journey to China to seek greener pastures by teaching English language in that country are in detention following the expiration of their visas ...

... I've probably used them 5 times in the past day. I don't enjoy using them cuz I'm never sure how far to squat! Oh well, ya do what you gotta do. This morning we had breakfast, packed and left for Hainan. Jason drove us to the Guangzhou airport and our flight left at 11:10 AM. I am on the plane now. We will visit Sineerat's family and stay in a hotel for 2 nights before returning to Guangzhou on June 1. Short flight, about an hour.

... all. In fact, she seemed to be very interested in the ceiling and seemed quite comfortable with all the flashbulbs going off around her. I'm afraid I wasn't very good about snapping pictures of each of the other babies and their happy parents after that, as Lydia and I moved off to a corner with our new little girl. She's a squirmy and smiley little girl, constantly arching her back to look up and all around her. She smiles so easily and seems very alert, responding to all ...