Youngor Business Hotel Suzhou

... bus and we took an hour and a half bus ride to Suzhou. Most of us in the group had never heard of Suzhou, but it has been around for a while. In fact, it was founded over 2500 years ago! Marco Polo visited here and called it the Venice of the East. The Grand Canal, which at over 1100 miles is the longest canal in the world, runs past Suzhou and connects to the moat around the old city of Suzhou. Suzhou is considered a small city, since it ...

... outside of his small one room home having a morning stretch or brushing his teeth. His home is no larger than a small single-car garage and is situated on the edge of the road. We peer through the window of his home as we pedal by. Inside is a sleeping cot, a small table, a hot plate, and some shelving on the wall lined with canned food. I wonder about the stories this old man must have, and how, if at all, his ...

... passed the stage for maternal fussing. <br><br>But I have to say that we are quite spoiled in the UK. Most motorists stop when they see you standing at a pedestrian crossing, unlike Russia where you have to make the bold move onto the crossing before they stop. But things are done differently in China.<br><br>They have quite a cute system in Suzhou at the traffic lights. A countdown in red tells the impatient how many seconds until they ...

... University graduates, many of them with Masters degrees. A couple of Assistants that have worked in my classes so far have a Masters degree in Chemistry, and the other in English studies. <br><br>Our day begins at 7:30am. We are on a semester system. Each day has 3 blocks. Two in the morning and one in the afternoon. This semester I am teaching 2 blocks of Info Tech 11 and one block of Leadership that Lois and I team teach. And, I have my prep this ...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!! I'm dressing up *s * pir*te / cr*cked out gypsy loh*n, it's pretty legend*ry. Tonight were going to Pulp Fiction, who *re ridiculously nice *nd giving free beer to everyone who is dressed up. It should get f*irly rowdy. App*rently none of the chinese dress up so it's b*sic*lly drunk exp*ts flooding b*r street cre*ting *ll sorts of shen*n****ns. <br>H*ve *n *wesome h*lloween!!! <br>-B

... turned to Willa and quickly asked her where the driver was going and that we needed him back to go shopping. Willa replied that we would take a taxi. I immediately began to wonder how we were going to get 5 people and all of our stuff into a taxi. So off we walked to the road and flagged down a taxi. It was a quick drive to the nearest store and the shopping began. By now we were all running on surplus energy just trying to hang on. We entered the store and immediately noticed ...

... schoen ist d** Zustand d** Bettwaesche in den Sleep**bussen. Diese sind eh schon g**uchlich an d** Grenze, wenn man **stmal 12 Stunden gefahren ist und das Wass** die nicht zu oeffnenden Fenst** von innen h**unt**laeuft, ab** es wa**e schoen, wenn wenigstens das Bettzeug gewechselt wu**de. Manchmal fragt man sich dann, ob die nicht ungepflegt wirkenden Leute im Bus blind sind, od** warum niemand m**kt dass das Kissen aussieht als wenn schon 200 and**e darauf gesabb**t haetten ...

... place? Well we were there, and it was nice. They were all decked out for Christmas - the employees were wearing Santa hats and there was a saxophone-playing Santa Claus and a giant gingerbread house made out of real gingerbread in the lobby. There was even Christmas music playing. Quite the American Christmas they were having here. They took us into the bar area to talk to us, because all of the conference rooms were full. They were doing quite well as a ...

... Sounds reasonable, except that this makeshift classroom had a dirty white board precariously propped against the wall on a table and the dated furniture was not exactly made for writing (the desks were too high!). Like it or not, the classes had been going on for the past three days. Bobby, Ben, and I (hey, together we're BBC!) sat in on the Chinese class today to observe the lesson. The language teacher was a slender young woman whose ...