Yishi Yuan Hotel Nanjing
No.81 Zhongshan North Road, Gulou District Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210009, China
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Sewing Machine????
... the equivalent to EBay. Only problem is that it is all in Chinese!
One of the Chinese Mums (Hanna) at the school has started up a business as a Taobao Agent so she does it all for you.
OK. I chose the machine that I wanted. It came with a traveling bag, a box with bits and reels of sewing thread. What else could you want.
The machine arrived 6 days later.... But where were the extras.... I asked Hanna and ...
China, My Gray Gray Gray Sweet China ~
... carry my bags up and down the train station stairs to a taxi cab, and I’m indebted to those strangers. They were all college students, and said they knew the feeling. On the taxi ride to campus, the driver asked me the usual questions: What are you doing here, where is your husband, why don’t you marry a Chinese man, do you like Chinese food? I’m amazed at the predictability of conversations.
A few new students from the local area were at ...
A Case of the Mondays
... the translators hadn't translated many documents for editing, so I was allowed to go home 2 hours early! Just a fluke, I am sure. On top of that tiny piece of relief, the weather's supposed to be back in the (upper) 70s tomorrow, which will be a nice break from the upper 90s of late.
I also managed to lose my Bank of America debit card yesterday (that is, the only way I have of getting money outside of my school stipend). I remembered that I had ...
Qingming Festival
... nothing. I'm feeling much more acclimated this semester, because last semester I didn't know anything about anything, but now I know some things about some things- at least i think i do.
What am I excited about? First and most obvious is that there is a Chinese holiday this week (4/3-4/5) called QingMing Festival. Chinese holiday= no class Monday thru Wednesday. Had I know about this a bit earlier, I might have planned ...
A 2+ hour bus ride to Nanjing; a 1 hour ride back
... t want to go for more than a day) and again, it was a lot more expensive, but they had tickets, so that is what we went with. We got the 820pm train and were good to go. Then we get on our train and notice that it doesn't really look like a fast train, or one of the bullet trains...which it wasn't. Good thing I brought my grading because it was a long ride! After an hour, finishing grading papers, Courtney took a nap, she asked when we would get there and we learned that is ...



