Tong Da Hotel Guiyang

Sara:

...Seriously people think it is acceptable to hock up disgusting things and spit all over the floor, wether that be in the street, a cafe, bus, or train, people spit everywhere here!

We got here after a horrific 10 hour bus journey, it is very hot, about 33 degrees.

The bus seemed to have a problem with its suspension, and we were sitting over the back wheels going up, down and around rocky mountains. We ...

Hi - 17/8 Arrival at Kaili
We are in China!
We had spent 30 hours of 3 flights - all good, specially Air Uzbekistan, then a bus to Guanyang - a big city, 1.2 million people: a modern place, 20-30 stories buildigs, wide road, full of new cars and well-dressed people. The streets look so clean, quite. Lotteries on streets!
We took the bus to Kaili - 2.5 hours, new road (you pay for passing it).
Kaili is a Miao city - looks ...

... thinking of home and the games going on a lot of time on saturday!

pps - anyone...? how are the snowdogs going?!?!? alright?? :)

ppps - Pat and Gus - Hope your 21st went really well...if you happen to read this!

Later....
we went out for lunch with CD, the maganger of the bar last night...this was cooll...there's lots and lots of little dishes filled with different vegetables spread over the table....you get a small, thin ...

... really are enjoying delicious food. For example, for lunch today, we shared three dishes with steamed rice. A whole river fish, chilli ginger beans and garlic water spinach with steamed rice and washed down with green tea.

When we arrived in this rather large town of Guiyang I wish we had the movie camera directed on us. Helen was unsure of the way to the hotel so we stopped at some lights and she grabbed a taxi for us to follow. The traffic parted amid a deluge ...

... much manipulation and a positive outcome is not guaranteed". "It would do no harm to the image of the local government," he said, comparing her with former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who he described as "beauty meeting politics". Professor Xia Xueluan, from the department of sociology and anthropology at Peking University, disagreed. He said that pictures of a civil servant circulated online in the name of beauty is "inappropriate". Xia suggested that tourists ...

... Marx. Doh!) Then Beth asked what they knew about Jewish people. They said, they're the most clever people in the world! and very good at business! Oh, kids, you have so much to learn... I had fun telling them about Chasidim, 10 plagues and Chanukah. Then we played dreydl! new converts? i doubt it. But so impressed was one of the students that he offered to be my tour guide the next day while Beth and dan were working. So I took him up on it. But that's the next story...

... Not much more to see here, so we decide to go back to Guiyang for some lunch. After that, a visit to the Hongfu Temple, on top of a hill in Qianling Park. Another silly visit to a budist temple. They're all the same: sculptures, incense burners... Once you've seen one, it is nonsense to visit others. Go back to Guiyang center for last visit in the province, the Jiaxiu Pavilion. A small building in the middle of the river, with nothing ...

... a swimming pool and a playground. The community here also developed quickly under Pollard's influence so that it soon possessed an orphanage, hospital, leper house, post office and so on. Due to the elevation, the mountain-top village Stone Gateway lacked essential crops and large portions of the villagers perished due to famine. In 1906, missionaries Rev and Mrs. Harry Parsons brought potatoes into this area for the first time ...

... rock group. Not were. Are. I think it might be just a little bit old. I don't use the textbook very much. My Chinese skills are not improving as much as I might have hoped. I have started learning written Chinese, and it's incredibly gratifying to be able to read short sentences. (Are you a student? No, I am a teacher. What do you teach?) But we don't live with a Chinese family anymore, so I don't have to practice speaking Chinese very much. We have ...