Youngsun Hotel Shijiazhuang

... in line, and when we got back they had given away all the rooms. Beasue of this we got upgraded to a suite. We had a siting room with couches, a refrigerator, and even a balcony! Lucky us. <br><br>Once we got our stuff up to the room, we went to find a late dinner with Kirk the program director. He led us to an outdoor place which is a carwash by day and a restaurant by night. It was good we had mutton on a stick ...

... no I goes out the the parking lot and intercepts each driver as they go to the covenient store and the bathrooms. Two hours goes by and we had asked about 30 set of drivers with no success. <br><br>It's 10:30pm. Finally just as I am about to give up I see two guys standing close to Liu Chang. They must be truck drivers. I go up to them, offers them some cigarettes from Germany I brought with me, sweet talks them into giving us a ride. Fortuantely they are ...

... needed- Jack translated everything of course. <br>These guys could DRINK! By noon they had finished off 10 bottles of<br>baijiu. They kept insisting that I drink with them but since I had to teach in<br>the afternoon, I got away with only having to do a few- thank god, I hate<br>baijiu. <br><br> Some of you know about Mickey- used to work for him downtown<br>on a regular basis. His company went bankrupt and he said he needed more time<br>to pay me. Although ...

... biggie, we were almost out anyway. Birthday and Marriage *Went to a nice restaurant and had sushi for Sam's bday. It was soo good- I've missed sushi. Our Chinese friend Eileen surprised me with a text message that said she got married and she wanted us to meet her husband. So we went to "the boat restaurant" to celebrate Grandma &amp; Grandpa *Our new friend John (lives in our apt building and is helping the new Korean students get adjusted) invited us to have dinner at his ...

... is often referred to as being lucky in recent Chinese history. Once a small village, it developed under modern railway construction. A century ago, when the Lu-Han Railway stretched to the former Shijiazhuang Village, it brought with it new opportunities, opening an industrial ...

... vocabulary, math, songs, games. It's a good time. Our military friends all had to go back to their countries. It was a sad goodbye. We hung out with them all the time. Going out isn't going to be the same without them. We haven't actually been out out since they left- mostly because we're working so much that we're just too tired. But we have a lot of fun events coming up so we'll have time to party then. Mallory and ...

... countries. They're also here for a year so I'm looking forward to hanging out with them again. We walked to a restaurant called "The Golden Mountain" which is known for having great dumplings. Jake ordered several different dishes including pork dumplings, leek and egg dumplings, tomato dumplings, and shrimp dumplings. Everything was really good except for this one dish that had something in it that numbed our tongues. We've tried a few dishes ...

... to perform and look at this apartment- it was also put on by a newspaper) We kind of skipped out on the apartment and walked for a while to the party. (Before I continue with the day I need to tell about the little boy with a mosquito bite on his butt and explain that the small kids in China walk around with their butts hanging out! All of the clothes that are made for the children have open ...

... time- yes, students have class all day/night saturday and sunday until noon) a man came up to me and asked if i taught at the school and pointed it- i thought he was gonna tell me his son/daugher went there but instead he showed me this little nbotebook and in it it said "Miss, I am interested in learning English. I will pay you 200 RMB per hour to teach me English." It said some other stuff that I can't remember but yeah- he looked ...

... husband who was a professor of modern Chinese history (sorry my lack of Chinese forestalled conversation with him). All three of her daughters have immigrated to the U.S. so she seems to spend as much time there as in China. There was nothing for it except to visit Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City the next day. I had no idea that last time I visited how luck I was it was a bitterly cold, gray day in December. Very few people and virtually no foreign tourists ...