Ximei Business Hotel Shijiazhuang

... tv's, an audi, and a BMW. This is not in any way typical, but I wasnt complaining. <br><br>One night we made dumplings together and another night we went out for beijing duck. It's very very good. <br><br>It must have been pretty comical to watch a 6'5'' white kid get led around the city by a little chinese girl, but Becky was a grade guide. (She recently graduated highschool and will attend university in Beijing.)

Mr. Fu who's giving us a ride from Beijing turns out to be a businessman driving to Shijiazhuang for a meeting. Once he got comfortable with us he agrees to take us all the way to Shijiazhuang. The visibility is about 50 feet with heavy down pour as he drives slowly south. Both Liu Chang and I can't believe we're finally on the road. We seriously considered spending the night at the motel at the gas station. That would have been downright depressing!<br ...

... br><br>*Taught them about playing card games in English- they learned<br>&#8220;Jack, Queen, King, Ace&#8221; they usually say&#8221;11,12,13,1.&#8221; Taught 'em different<br>card terminology and they learned a couple different games like BS-except I<br>called it &#8220;lie&#8221; and Egyptian Rat Screw. They taught me a game that&#8217;s a lot like<br>&#8220;P&amp;A &#8220;or &#8220;*******.&#8221;<br><br>*Wrote short stories- students had to include 5 ...

... biggie, we were almost out anyway. Birthday and Marriage *Went to a nice restaurant and had sushi for Sam's bday. It was soo good- I've missed sushi. Our Chinese friend Eileen surprised me with a text message that said she got married and she wanted us to meet her husband. So we went to "the boat restaurant" to celebrate Grandma &amp; Grandpa *Our new friend John (lives in our apt building and is helping the new Korean students get adjusted) invited us to have dinner at his ...

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... board because the following week we would play a game where they would need to know the country names in English and which continent they were in. Although very few students actually did this, I was surprised by the number of them that brought geography books the next week to use during the game. The classes vs.'d each other in a Scattegories type game. I'd give them a topic such as "Countries that begin with 'C'" or ...

... that we still have more paper work to fill out dealing with our living permit (everyone needs a work permit and a livign permit), we aren't gaurenteed to get our passports back in time (the Security Bureau keeps it and it takes atleast 5 days to be returned and HK is the only city in china that you have to have your passport in order to enter) so since we didn't wanna take the chance of wasting money on a train ticket we decided we're gonna go to ...

... was an opera (SOO BAD-look at my clip!) a young girl playing a side ways harp, poems, more singing (some of which was really good) and then our American dance! The only thing we had to do to be able to come to this festival was to perform. Kara, Alissa, Willie, Josh and myself all practiced a little line dance to my Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Sirus before we left (we put like 15 mins of effort ...

Holy smokes, am I really in China?! I've been here now for 6 days, and still can't believe for the next year of my life I'm going to be teaching in a country so different than my own. With that being said, I couldn't be more excited for this adventure. It's already been qutie the experience. After my sad goodbye to my parents, brother, Andrea and Matt, I soon boarded the flight- we got upgraded to Economy Plus because Willie and Kara knew one of the ...

... zero for the sprucing up. Several of the main pavilions are shrouded in scaffolding and the ubiquitous green safety netting that seems to cover all buildings under construction. The frescoes on virtually all the buildings are being cleaned and repainted. (So far, the Greeks have resisted the temptation to restore the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis to the gaudy colors with which they were originally festooned - perhaps out of deference to Western ...