The Shilla Suzhou

... tourists, so we returned the favor and pulled them into our pictures too! The entire place was great, and many of us said it was our favorite destination so far.<br><br>However, that sentiment changed pretty quickly as we took to a "Chinese gondola" for a tour of the Grand Canal. The century old homes that lined the canal were really interesting. Before the light faded, we hopped off of the boat and wound our way through a neighborhood ...

... station table in front of her shop. There are always fifteen to twenty people milling around buying their breakfast from her. She has a couple of small wooden tables with four chairs each set-up beside her cooking station for people to sit and eat. They are always full. Right next door is a small shop that sells fresh fruit and vegetables, as well as bottled water and juice. Two or three times a week I'll stop to ...

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 ...

... Lois teaches English classes and an ESL class. Our biggest class has about 25 students. <br><br>Lunch is at 11:30am. Here's the big difference between teaching in BC and teaching in China. The lunch break here is 2 hours long. When I first heard about this I thought it was crazy!!! But all of the BC teachers, including me, love having the long lunch break. After the first 30 minutes of lunch the campus becomes a ghost town because all of the ...

... BC time) and were both feeling super tired but couldn't sleep either. So we flipped through about 40 Chinese tv channels and managed to fall asleep again after about half and hour, sleeping until around 8am. <br><br>That morning we relaxed in our hotel rooms and waited for our Chinese driver to show up. It was pretty interesting to see the difference in the two cultures right from the beginning of our stay. That morning I went downstairs to the store to grab a drink. As I waited ...

... Weg fragt, manchmal geht ** sogar ein paar hund**t Met** mit), sond**n einfach daran dass man sich bei sovielen Leuten in einem Land einfach gnadenlos durchsetzen muss. Also wird man auf d** Strasse prinzipiell ang**rempelt, man bekommt Tritte auf die Fuesse, es wird nicht im Traum daran gedacht auf dem Gehweg auszuweichen (man legt es lieb** auf eine Kollision an) od** v**li**t fast ein Auge durch die zahlreichen Schirme. Normal**weise wird sowas einfach von beiden Seiten ...

... The staff at the hospital did not want to do the operation so Jennifer wanted to know if they could borrow James to take them to a hospital in Sganghai. Unfortunatley James, like most other Chinese, was on holiday and about 3 hoirs away. I suggested they go to Kowloon hospital but Jennifer was not comfortable with the idea. I called a while later and Jennifer was not able to organise transport. I convinced her to let me call a ...

... to arrive and by the time it did we were running late fore the train so he had to get it packed up and eat it on the train. The train left Sozhou at 6pm and we arrived back in Shanghai and hour or so later. Brian went off to the airport while Paul and I decided to head to the 'Fake Market' in the French Concession. We got down there on the metro and it was raining most of the time we were there. The market gets it name from all the counterfeit goods they sell ...

... hello! hello! hello!". It was very cute and was an overall pleasant experience. We went into the washroom to do our business. Just before I had begun the two girls ran inside the washroom and danced around the urinals chanting "hello! hello! hello!". I panicked and hid in a stall and closed the door. Poor Grant had already begun and so he was stuck out there. We finished up and washed our hands, then got out the park as fast as possible. It wasn ...

... un resto vegetarien ou japonais en esperant retrouver la ligne. Par contre si vous voulez que le pantalon-trop-grand-pour-vous-mais-vous -l'avez-achete-quand-meme-parce-que-c'e tait-le-dernier vous moule correctement, une bonne centaine d'enseignes MacDo, KFC, Pizza Hut, Haagen Dazs, Starbuck vous tendent les bras. Au bout de Nanjing Road on trouve le musee d'art de Shangai, ou j'ai passe trois bonnes heures. Etaient exposees quelques oeuvres de Yan Pei Ming qui peint avec une rare ...