Yayuncun Hotel Beijing

... place here since 6th century. There are 190 stones tablets each one 2m high on which are carved the writings of the 13 Confucius classics consisting of 630,000 Chinese characters.These were carved in 17th century to chronicle the classics in stone. The imperial college is a series of gardens and pavillions where scholars were educated in the Confucian classics. The gardens were very serene here around the circular pavillion of the main hall. From here I walked a few kms to the north ...

... his company asked 28,000 new hires across all fields how many interviews they had to get their current job. The researchers then used performance management data and interviews with managers to evaluate the performance of those 28,000 hires. Controlling for all other factors, it turned out that those who were interviewed four to five times were considered the best workers — better than those ...

... to be greeted by our Holt Travel Leader.   There were 6 families in total that are included in our trip.   Not all will go to Chongqing with us but we'll be able to meet up with them in Guangzhou for the final paperwork processing.

We're off to catch some sleep.  The rest of the day is relaxing and touring, shopping and swimming.  We're walking distance from Forbidden City, Olympic Village, etc.   

Love to all and thanks for the prayers for safe travels!!  

 

... It was about this time some lady stopped me and asked for a photo with me cause I'm pretty much blonde now, which was actually very amusing!!  We took like no time to walk down but i took us forever to get up the relentless hills! It really was mind blowingly beautiful!  That evening getting back to beijing we headed to Tiannamen square and by pure luck got there about a minute before the flag lowering ceremony began! It was amazing the soldiers are so regimented and such ...

... t see any of the other animals outside of the panda area. I once i went inside that panda area i saw a few other rare asian animals including a pair of monkeys and the zoo's very large very fat red panda. (I'm not sure if was really that big but it was totally twice as big as any red panda i have seen before.) Then for the super exciting part I went into the Olympic ...

... Princess Anne!!!!!). Quite often we had seen lots of Olympic-clad people wandering around and the whole city was in panic mode with building, tidying, officiating and practising their customer service skills. Very exciting atmosphere. Actually, we were in Beijing probably at the best time ever. It was still relatively quiet and interesting to witness the preparations. Once the Olympics are in full force the city will be a crush of bodies. Glad we won't be there ...

... 7:00 to 9:00 pm.  There were several students there who were so happy to host us.  A few gave presentations on the highlights of Beijing, which was wonderful.  During our free talk time, I made some new friends and gathered some great research for my project.  It was really great!  One of the highlights so far :) THURSDAY AND FRIDAY Mellow days. Not much to report. SATURDAY What an exhausting day! We met at 6:30 to set off to the Great Wall. Why so early? Well, we were ...

Onto Beijing! We took an overnight train from Datong to Beijing but it could hardly count as a night's sleep. The train left Datong at 11:00 and arrived in a star-studded Beijing at 5:00. It was comforting that you could see stars because that meant our first day in Beijing would be some-what haze free. Beijing was a whirlwind of site-seeing because it has so many historic places and things to see. Day 1 was spent at ...

Got into Beijing yesterday afternoon. It's surprisingly clean and calm!! Maybe in pre-2008 Olympic preparation mode... But, it's been nice. Visited TiananMen Square, the White Pagoda, and the outside of the Forbidden City... Not much time. My train leaves tomorrow at 0745.

I made my husband go to Disneyland and I think he enjoyed it more than I did! He is very immature for his age or shall I say childlike. We had a good time but got awfully tired and its the smallest Disneyland in the world! They have a sophisticated (compared to DC ...