Zhong Shan Hotel Shijiazhuang

... tv's, an audi, and a BMW. This is not in any way typical, but I wasnt complaining.

One night we made dumplings together and another night we went out for beijing duck. It's very very good.

It must have been pretty comical to watch a 6'5'' white kid get led around the city by a little chinese girl, but Becky was a grade guide. (She recently graduated highschool and will attend university in Beijing.)

... 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.

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 ...

... I’m never
going to get it and I just have to take this as a learning experience. Although
I’m upset about it, I’ve done everything I can so I’m just letting it go now. I
believe karma and that makes me feel a little bit better, ha.

I’ve continued to teach at Ai Hua, Ugly Duckling
Kindergarten and Jessi’s School and meet with Young Yang, Sunny &Jassi, and
Peter- sad to say goodbye to ...

... house. The live in a storage unit where they sell children's books. We made dumplings and Willie got drunk with the grandpa. Kara and I bought some fun books- I want to give em to the kids I tutor as going away gifts because a lot of em are in Chinese and English. I think Young Young would really like one for her son too. Day of Fun in the Sun with Sunny and Jassi's families *I teach these two little girls and their moms always ask me do things with them but because ...

... in Shijiazhuang. No one could have predicted that this small, unknown village would have developed rapidly into the modern capital city of Hebei Province. Lhasa China Travel Beijing China Travel China Hotels China Highlights China Tours Though it is a relatively young city, it is located ...

... if they get to go to Australia to continue studying to be a hairdresser. I interviewed about 25 students- I had to rate their grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation and give them an overall score taking into consideration their presence during our conversation. Afterward, we had a group discussion and then they cut my hair :) All the students were really cool. We're hopefully gonna go out with them this weekend. Kara and I ...

... about his year in america and we were comparing things to china. he's really funny and pretty sarcastic which surprised me because we've been told most chinese people aren't and they wouldn't understand us if we were joking around about something. his english is really good though so i think he picks up on things better than most. Our schedules got changed again- starting this week i'll be teaching 17 classes instead of 19. Last week we reviewed ...

... for the bus we met a 10 year old boy named James who had the best English that I have heard since I've been here, besides Jake's. We started talking to James and from that moment at 3pm until 11pm we were inseperable. He sat by my on the bus, at dinner, on the bus on the way back. His mother should have paid us baby sitting fees because I'm sure his mother was glad to get rid of him for a while because he did not stop talking until we left at the end of the night. We ...

... on the bus you wouldve thought i was a celebrity-hilarious. *men walk around with shirts pulled up or off showing and touching their bellies - also eat shirtless. *women wear crazy scrunchies and hair pins along with jemmed jeans *yesterday downtown a little boy kept pinching me- guess he wanted to see how my skin was different. *women dont shave armpits *got a massive cut/bruise on my leg from running into my sink that has a sharp edge *have to ...

... road near what appeared to be two elaborate churches whose rococo design and ornamentation suggested Catholicism. David confirmed this and noted that people once again were free to worship here - yet another major policy change from the Mao era. HUEB is a huge campus, built about 50 years ago. Some 30,000 undergraduates and another 20,000 part-time adult learners are enrolled . The grounds and gardens are well kept and very pleasant. During our ...