Xinghai Golf Hotel Dalian

The people in Dalain, omg, I dont know how they get up in the morning, look in the mirror, and think they can step out in public. Heres some tips of how to fit in in Dalian:

Perm- The perm is IN. Get a short perm, wax it down with excessive wax but with fuzzy bits fraying out everywhere. Maybe like a huge afro waxed down I guess, but shaped like a bob.

Shinny ...

... meal cost 32 yuan. When I compare it to American prices, it is less than $5 so I should be fine with that. But to compare it to China meal prices it is quite expensive.

As a bonus I am adding some KFC pictures. This is taken in Dalian and my western friends call it the KFC church. Because ... it looks like a Church. None of the others look like this one. So, I wanted to share it with you. Enjoy...

... slang for bimbo) stakes… nowadays, I may well make the grade.

Offloading the books (which still haven't arrived in Jinan 2 weeks later, I might add) took up a fair bit of time because I am out of writing practice so it took me ages to write my address in Chinese. This meant that I had to catch a taxi to the airport bus stop, instead of a bus, to save time. This ended up being rather ironic, since my flight was delayed by an hour. The flight stopped in ...

... of the owner, who is also the school’s librarian, told us how long it took him to teach the local bakery to make real hamburger buns, both in shape and taste—they couldn’t understand why he didn’t want sugar in the recipe like their sweet buns.

It is amazing what kind of impact ‘comfort’ food can have when you are travelling, or away from home.

Yum... cheese.

~Ashley

We have all been volunteered to help the school put on an English Festival. I was very reluctant to get too involved in something I had no interest in, because there is a lot of other activities the school does that is more up my alley... but we had no choice.

The most Chinese thing about the whole event was that the slogan was incorrect grammar, for a festival celebrating English. Classic. We will, we will English You! Good lord.

So, when given a ...

It is Heidi first full day of teaching, and we are launching our Stock Market Game. The premise is simple, randomly handout six cards to every student that is either $100 or a stock (A,B,C,D) explain to them the goal of the game is to amass the most wealth that they can. It works best with two people, because one person can be in charge of randomly changing the price of stocks (all going up) and the other can be the bank, loaning out $1000 for every $100 of insurance ...

... of it, you miss out on the opportunity for students to understand what they have done wrong. I use to hate when teachers hung on to things forever, and you had forgotten about it by the time you got it back.... no, not me. I will give it back the next day, or maybe the next class, but never weeks...

Heidi will be doing her mini unit first, so I will have a lot of extra time on my hands. It sucks, I wish I could teach the whole time.

~Ashley

... for lunch and maybe a nap, then middle school in the afternoon until 4:40. By the time I get done with middle school I'm usually pooped. I play around on the computer, or read a book, then talk to my mom for a while. Sometimes I wander down to one of the restaurants to get food, or I eat leftovers or make some creation. I still don't really cook meals yet....there's not a lot of access to ingredients to cook a lot of western ...

... A FOREIGN COUNTRY!" Of the seafood array, Dalian has elevated 8 categories of sea creatures to honor status, called "The eight treasures of the sea" or "The eighth sea estimate highly" or "eight value highly of sea", depending on whose menu you are reading. The Qing Dynasty had the legion of 8 banners further North. I think it's kind of the same club. The 8 treasures are: Abalone (the famous shell of sea ear, can be used as medicine ...

... to it. That in itself was a battle, with an ungodly amount of people squeezing onto the carriage and fights nearly breaking out. We got there for about 7.55 just in time to the see the last few fireworks explode. This was pretty impressive and i thought it was just the start. But when a million chinese people starting away from where we were going i knew something was up. Great, all this way for nothing! So today i went skiing with ...