Universal House Golden Lotus Hotel Chengdu

... a traditional tea ceremony with the staff. After this they treated us to a hot pot dinner. Chegdu is famous for hot pot cooking. When we left the restaurant...guess what......it was snowing! The snow is following us all over China. We will be back in the school tomorrow for more observation. We have been gone a week and are a little homesick. A cheeseburger would be like the Temple of Heaven right now. <br>

... peu defaillant.<br> <br>Je<br>cr*is que je vais s*rtir ce s*ir, v*ir c*mment ca va se pass**. La<br>l*gique v*udrait que je relaxe, mais la l*gique a ete invente par des<br>h*mmes grecques, et ne s'applique pas a la Chine<br> <br>Ah aussi je me n*urris exclusivement de s*upe w*nt*n. C'est tellement ****ing b*n. <br> <br>Un b*n cafe. Oui.<br> <br>-Jac*b<br> <br> <br>UPDATE DE BROUILLON :<br><br>Finalement<br>j'ai decid** de faire la ch*se plus ...

I am back in Chengdu. Able to send text messages. Able to get on the internet (although I have not bothered to do so). Able to receive international calls. Lost for words. And out of sorts. I loved Sichuan the last time I came here (a little over 2 months ago) and I had a very good impression of the capital, Chengdu. Despite the pollution and humidity, it retains a certain charm, which shines through the smog. I'm not sure what it is about ...

... a major role in the recovery. There were many children which were put at the university and even had classes there for a while. It was a very nice and sobering memorial and museum. <br><br>We finished our on campus visit by having one of the students give us a lecture on education in China. He did a really good job. This student actually is coming to the United States for a ...

... for the shower and the bathroom, good idea), a love seat and coffee table, CNN, HBO and ESPN (we don't have to watch CCTV for 3 days!), face, hand and bath towels, a floor mat, and a safe. The only thing we are missing is a fridge. I had a nap while Bill watched Copperhead (what a bad western "horror"). At 2:00 we went for a walk. After some discussion we stopped at the Five Star General for lunch. I had a peanut smoothie that would have been good ...

... are everywhere. I can't say the same about cats though. I have seen maybe two on the streets. But then there is Wang Peng. Wang Peng (W ah ng Pung) is my roommate Tristan's cat (and now I guess ours too). He was bought from a pet store (which made me feel better that he wasn't just found on the street) to take care of a bug issue in our apartment this summer (cleaning would have taken care of that issue too but I digress). I took some pictures of him for you. He is ...

... to get both of them back on Monday. Jimmy was pretty worked up and sorry that the whole thing happened. We had lunch and were forced to drink and then we made our plans for the afternoon. Jimmy arranged for one of his friends that speaks a little bit of English to take us on a tour of an old city about an hour outside of Chengu, while they went and handled some stuff with the accident. Jimmy went to the hospital to see how the ...

... stairs and out to the sidewalk. Yvonne had taken the day off of work and was in her apartment when the shaking began. She was on the 7th floor of her building, so the shaking must have been much more violent then what we experienced on the 2nd floor. She said she crawled under her desk to protect herself. I noticed some scratches on her arms, but they weren't actually quake-related. On her way out of the apartment she tried to take her cat with her, who ...

... of whom gave me a fake 10 yuan note. Who would bother to fake something worth 70p?), half of whom only spoke sichuanhua, different enough from mandarin that they could rarely understand when I gave an address, even if I definitely had it right; to the number plates that read 'good luck!', a fair indication of the general approach to driving; to the myriad bus stations - every time I returned to Chengdu by bus, I came into a different station; to the funky bars and live music ...

... read the entire contents of travel, leave a reply after reading comments, a lot of comments and correction of improper travel and errors, thank you very much. (Itinerary line diagram) This trip is full, and a senior go out, the train in Shanghai to Chengdu, and then by bus between the county line west, with a daily average of 1 ~ 2 months after the county, started from Chengdu, the Sichuan Aba via states, Ganzi Autonomous ...