Yixinyuan Hotel Dalian

... doesn't fit you and you look even better! Remember, if it doesnt look like its been sitting in the sun for 20 years, YOU CANT WEAR IT!

If you don't have the perm, (mostly if your a guy), then you have outrageous hair!! Especially popular is shaving the sides, and waxing your hair up and over it, kinda like a greasy bowl cut that sticks out over the shaved sides like ...

Ok, I did it, I ate some western food. I still haven't eaten at McDonalds or KFC yet. KFC is everywhere. I wonder if they were the first American chain to come to China. McDonalds are prolific as well. No, my roommate and his friends wanted to go out for a western meal and we headed down to a place called "The Real Eddies" Not sure of the story behind the name. But here goes - Eddie was trained as a cook/chef in the ...

... the airport bus, helped me buy the ticket, and told the driver where to drop me off. The driver was extremely nice, carried my pack into the hotel for me and made sure I was checked in before heading home. The hotel staff were nice and the hotel was right next to a tonne of Korean restaurants. For this reason, despite a completely ****** traveling day and a telephone argument with hotel staff, my first impression of Dalian was positive. Nice people (except for one) and ...

... So I don’t know. I do know this. That thing is HUGE!!! I walked all around it and took some pictures and noticed that it was a fairly clear day so I took some pictures of the surrounding area as well.

One task down and now on to another. Run down the steps back to the road and up to the space ship. That is what I began to do and it actually didn’t take that long to get to the top of the other hill ...

... come up with the most accurate adjectives... like a little kids room, meets misprinted fabrics, meets dim lighting and an attempt at cozy. We stepped in and I howled with laughter.

On the two little cots that were side by side, lay little cotton pjs, which we changed into and waited for our masseuse. When the gentlemen came in, they introduced themselves and started by placing warm pillows on our stomachs and ...

... One student was in charge of the banners, one in charge of the t-shirts and one in charge of the music. By the next meeting we have 30 t-shirts for 45 volunteers, and no design. My first complaint was how did they think 45 people were going to fit in to 30 t-shirts? Daniella and I were volunteered to try to track down some extra black t-shirts in a market near our house with the instructions of not spending more than Y5 per t-shirt.

As for the ...

... br>Before we arrived in China, the one thing we were told was that it was really hard to get the students actively involved in the class—that they remained stoic, sombre, and serious. That was NOT our experience. With very little prompting, students were up, out of their seats and rapidly trading, wheeling and dealing.

One student I watched kept making deals right before whatever stock he sold went up by hundreds of dollars, groaning at his misfortune ...

... been good enough to compete in the professional leagues in the US. The US is, of course, the kingpin politically, technologically, and financially. Our economic cycles are the world's and our interests are theirs. A Chinese friend asked me the other day, "Do Americans really care about money? I mean you have so much - you can spend a billion ...

... we ordered, we drank green tea instead. It was good. We got two extra bowls of rice too, but oh well, we had it for breakfast this morning! We had the pork again and also ordered a plate of sweet and sour shrimp. We weren't sure what we were ordering, we just pointed to a picture on the menu and that's what we got! It was good. After dinner, we decided to explore the neighborhood right around where we live. There are a lot of people in China! It ...

Well first of all I can't believe I forgot something absolutely hilarious (in a very wrong way) out of my last travelogue, so I feel I must start with it here. When we stayed on the warship in Dalian, I felt the call of nature and wandered down the corridor to find the ladies toilet. Like all good toilets in China it was a squat toilet, but no worse than the usual... Anyway I did my business quickly and then ...