Zenec International Hotel Chengdu

... student made calligraphy scrolls. We observed an English class that was teaching the children the names of animals. Then we braved the chilly temperatures to interact with two outdoor PE lessons. We presented two different lessons to 60 students while 40 Chinese teachers observed. We taught the names of various foods and simple sentence structures and then taught the concept of prepositions using the food ...

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... coffee and making use of their free wireless. But I went up the wrong street and so ended up at the walking street instead. Which turned out to be fun and quite yummy too. I was seduced into Dairy Queen where I ate more ice cream than I have since the day I went to Turpan when LX and I had about 3 ice creams each in about 6 hours. I also ...

Today we spent our morning at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. We started by visiting the old campus that is inside the city. There we just walked around and took a few pictures. They mainly use it for their MBA program. I did see a Kaplan test prep center which is interesting since I teach some classes for them. We picked up a professor and drove to the new campus ...

... was the furthest one away. We were jostled and manhandled by people who were frantically trying to get luggage or trying to leave the airport. Ugh! We got to our baggage area before most and were able to wait out of the way while some people ran to the baggage trolley! LOL! At the tourist information spot the lady did not have an English map, but was able to show us where our hotel was (city center area) and where the tour agency is. We waited in ...

... truck. Stores who have things on the sidewalk get a huge fine and two brand new bikes got taken away from the store next door. Apparently Mike was telling me that these people will just walk up to people walking their dogs and demand to see registration and if you don't have it they take it away, too. It costs a hell of a lot of money to get it back as well. It's just funny that motorbikes and cars can drive all over the sidewalk but OMG ONE SCREW FROM A STORE ...

... back and got us and we went back to the scene of the accident and Jimmy waved down a police car to explain what happened. At that point Liz and I were picked up by Jimmy's cousin and he took us to the hospital. We weren't overly intersted in sitting in a room with a guy that we didn't know, so we waited in the lobby. Mike said that the guy was talking up a storm and he was actually a really nice guy. He was very sorry that he ...

... came from the left with no signs of stopping. Nick yelled "Stop!" and the taxi screeched to a halt just as two pedestrians ran out in front of the car. One pedestrian was hit and sprawled out on the hood of the car. Luckily, he wasn't injured; and he jumped off and ran away. In a matter of seconds the street was flooded with people, screaming and pointing a the buildings. Nick got out of the taxi and started rushing through the crowd back toward the ...

Before I disappear off around Western Sichuan with Sim on another research trip, prior to leaving China altogether, I thought I should say a few farewells to the city that I have called home for the past 5 months. Good or bad, there is a lot of comfort in the familiar and a lot I will miss about the place. So,... Goodbye to the omnipresent grey skies; I can't think of a more noticeable feature of Chengdu than the fact that you never notice the sky at all. One child actually ...

July 4, 2007 ~ July 27, travel from Shanghai, with a total of 9 1000 kilometers trip, the lowest elevation of the road -2 m and the maximum altitude of 5100 meters, which lasted 24 days, via Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi , Gansu, Sichuan, Qinghai, Tibet, the nine provinces and autonomous regions, using bus, taxi companies, such as ways to fight car traveled 13 counties in Sichuan, Qinghai three counties, 10 counties in ...