Yicheng Business 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...

... wore swimming caps. (Actually, it was everyone – that leads to why I was in trouble) I get in the pool and swim around a bit and the life guard comes over yelling and blowing his whistle at me. Life guards are like car drivers in China. They like to make noise (honking horns continually or in this case blowing enthusiastically into a whistle). I finally realize that he is talking to me and then he starts pointing to his head and ...

The first time I had even heard of Dalian was when I asked my Hangda (name of a company that repairs airplanes and makes some joint thingy that connects the gas thingy to the plane so it can refuel) class where they would choose to live, if they could live anywhere in China. One of my students said Dalian, because it is clean, modern, beautiful and by the sea. People I asked about Dalian since have all given positive feedback. I even looked into working in Dalian, fairly ...

... our faces, necks and shoulders. It was heaven.

It wasn’t until he started moving to my arms, that I realized that my masseuse may be blind, as he had to 'look’ around with his fingers to find the part of my arm he was looking for. At one other point, when he started to massage my arm, he let my hand fall in his lap—and I instantly tensed—not because I was in an inappropriate place, but more ...

... I felt more at home. So I tried to encourage them to think about design, what they want the t-shirt to say, or represent... I drew an example on the board of a simple combination of ‘E’ and ‘A’ and that was it, they were sold. I would have changed things around and been a little more creative if I knew I was suggesting ideas rather than suggesting examples... Oh well. Next challenge, teach the students how to use InDesign from scratch in ...

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 ...

... Dalian beer festival toasts Olympics run-up The 10th China International Beer Festival will be held from July 17 to 28 in Dalian, announced Dai Yulin, vice mayor of Dalian, at a news conference Wednesday. More than 30 beer manufacturers will bring over 400 beer brands and 300 arts performances to participate in the festival in the coastal city of Northeast China's Liaoning province. Large-scale domestic beer companies like China Resources and Yanjing, as well ...

... kick steps that the Russians think they have locked up. It's entirely entertaining, lasts about 2 hours. The building that Dalian Opera is in was built during the Japanese occupation, 1932 according to one source, as a Shinto temple. Beautiful classical Asian building. The interior is still recognizable as a temple. The opera is so unpretentious that the temple setting is just a routine feature of the operation ...

... to the holiday and the last three hours feels like torture (ok slight exaggeration!!!) This is where the good ol' movie/tv show lesson plan comes in handy! Thank you CSI! (hey it's science related!) Leaving tomorrow for HK baby! We're so excited! I can't wait to go back. Todd has wanted to visit Hong Kong forever! It's gonna be gooooodddd!