Zhongdu Hotel Zhengzhou
No.99 Hanghai Middle Road, Erqi District Zhengzhou, Henan, 450005, China
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Slight problems...
Last night I ate dinner with people from the Xu-Bo organization, Julian (the other volunteer) and Marco (the high-school student) where both there too. It was a good dinner with many chinese dishes and an amazing desert, they said it was a coffee cake but it didn't taste like coffee and I really enjoyed it!
By the end of the dinner it was confirmed that today (Wednesday) I would hopefully be on a train back to Shanghai.
So today is here, and I just got a ...
Dumplings, Tennis, and the Museum
Today I was invited to make dumplings at one of my students' houses. I was told to be at the school gate at 11:00am and the girl would pick me up. Alice didn't give me much information about it and that freaked me out a little, but once she explained that they wanted me to have a meal and make some dumplings with them it was all good!
Anyways, I was ready and left my flat to be at the west gate at 11 and there she was standing in her yellow jacket. We walked from the school ...
Volunteer tour guide!
... visited but she said that it was worth it for me to see it. So off we went and it was rather interesting. There is a special type of tree that is special to this religion, it is called a prayer tree and people get their wishes typed on a red ribbon and they have to place it on the tree and the higher up it is, the closer it is to god, and the more chance you have of it coming true. It was very interesting!
I managed to get home alive, but ...
Week 2 teaching!
... completely different to the younger ones. They are quiet and barely want to speak (except for the 5 that I know well) it is probably due to the fact that they don’t know me but I don’t think I am that scary! I don’t even look scary! But what can you do. I had open conversation, which a welcome change but it was me asking questions, picking students and getting them to answer. In the end I said now it is your turn, ask me anything you want! That ...
Just so so!
... I think) powdered sweet potato mixed something in order to form the dough, it was slimy and strange not my favourite thing. Then there were extras on 4 plates that we could eat; more meat, some different types of veggies, some bean curd and some bread thing. All in all it cost around 160RMB for all 10 of us to eat and for the amount of food that we got I don’t think it was very expensive. Did I mention that earlier at the zoo we happened to find around 260RMB. Due to ...
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