Tian Ze Hotel Tongliao

... by raping and torturing innocent men, women and children. In an attempt to control the underground resistance, they would choose random farmers label them resistance fighters and chop off their heads. This picture was taken just after the samurai sword chopped off a farmer's head. I wonder why I don't see many Toyotas around town. To top off the night my Dad and I went to a bath house. I really needed a scrub down. It's been a year since I've had a proper head to ...

We arrive at the Shenyang airport and are welcome by Sarah's mom and uncle. I've only seen her mom's picture before so it was rather emabarrasing when I mistook her uncle for her father. Anshan is the biggest steel producing city in China and her mom is involved in that business. It was an hour drive to Anshan from the airport. I don't remember much because on the way back, I passed out in the front seat while listening to Sarah and her ...

Woke up hungry, can you imagine? With the smuggled cheese and bread we built Grilled Cheese sandwiches for breakfast with a jar of peaches. What a great breakfast! Off to shopping again, Crystal led us to the place to buy DVD's. Kevin was in his glory! DVD's for 6 kwi (kwi means buck, which is 1 yuan, or 1 RMB = which equals 14 cents) So each DVD was 84 cents. ) He went ...

Today we are off to the Horticultural Expo in Shenyang. One hour ride across entire city of 7 million. It is a vast, large, exhibit of gardens, parks, and horticultural exhibitions. It is so big, we only saw about 1 quarter of it in a day. We learned that grass(lawns) are very precious in China. NO_ONE walks on the grass. Much of the time, it is not mowed, either. I think the idea comes from the time of Mao, when prisoners ...

We venture out again to see the city, and Peggy finds us the fish and seafood market. MMMM, Fish, shrimp, crabs, lobster, wriggly live eel-like fish, live long eels, flounders, snappers, oh yes, and there were toads about 1 lb each, and lots of turtles, and some clams and shellfish, and probably about a hundred other things that we could not identify. Didn't buy a thing! For ...

Peggy has arranged for us a very lovely apartment with a great sectional couch, pink!, a tv with one English Channel, a kitchen, bedroom, bath. It is identical to theirs in a large building on the SIU campus where they will be living and teaching English for the next three months. It is AC thankfully, and they have stocked our kitchen with groceries and Tsing Tao beer, the beverage of choice in China, our staple for the next 21 days, and endorsed by the Beijing 2008 ...