Tian Yuan Hotel Anshan
43 South Jianguo Road, Tiedong District Anshan, Liaoning, 114011, China
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Ripped off from here to eternity
... be too expensive, they waved us off with a “去吧", which is a mildly polite form of "get outta here". We went back to the first lady who disinterestedly took our money then had her friend in the booth walk us to the bus station without us having tickets in hand. Had we known completely what we were doing, we could've walked to that station ourselves, because then the lady bought the tickets there for less that ...
Sniffles and Tears
... for our return to Haicheng Senior High School. I taught English to two classes. One striking thing to me is that teachers teach bell to bell (or music to music) with no down time for student socializing at the end of the period. We gathered in the meeting period for a question and answer period with the Chinese students and teachers. Gabe answered a question about what it took to build a robot and Ms. Yakym was asked her adivce on how Chinese students could improve ...
School visit
... danced to Aaron's mouth percussion.The high point was the sharing of Chinese painting, calligraphy and knot making, Each of us left with a beuatiful gift created by the students on the spot. We posed for pictures one after the other, but were glad to do so. All of us were overwhelmed by the affection. Spirits are still high for our students. No homesickness that I am aware ...
Sightseeing Day
... comes from mining building stone and from pears. The mayor is a parent of a student in HSHS, and also is the host father for Chloe. The mayor requested that I assist in making contacts with our Indiana industries to establish economic relations. I don't think he understood that I'm not really that influential. The mayor gave all of us jade bracelets. We took many group pictures of various configurations. The computer I am using is not able upload pictures, so those ...
Needle in my nose!
... much. For example about 2 weeks ago the weather abruptly changed from about low 40's F to about 6 degrees F overnight. It went from nice and balmy to bone chillingly cold, that's 6 degrees is without factoring in wind chill. I, however, am capable of looking up the weather on my computer. Liu yi was worried i might not have done that though, so she called me at 7 a.m. to tell me to dress warmly and eat a warm breakfast because today was ...


