Zhonghai Special Guest Building Hotel Taiyuan

... crowd has gathered, someone will cry "Taiyuan" and the crowd will ooh and ahh in a "Oh you mean Taiyuan, sure you should have said" kind of way!

Ticket successfully in hand, we followed our Bus Lady across the road to our sleeper. (She had the most beautiful boots) The bus was filled with the tiniest bunk beds you've ever seen. Just about big enough for a short leprechaun to lie on his side and curl up his feet. (mild exaggeration only)

The bus ...

Z Wutaishanu jsme vyjeli autobusem v 8:10. Cesta do Taiyuanu trvala asi 4 hodiny, vetsina osazenstva ji prospalo - i kdyz personal autobusu se to snazil narusit poustenim nejake cinske superstar neuveritelne nahlas.

Jedna zastavka na benzinove pumpe. Zacina se zdat, ze toalety na benzinkach budou hlavnimi adepty na cenu "Zachod Julie Hubenakove". Hlavne devcata si porad nemuzou zvyknout na vykonavani potreby pred zraky ostatnich Cinanek ve fronte. O zapachu ani nemluve ...

How to learn Chinese is a frequently asked question. Occasionally, people would like to find a tutor to help them learn Chinese. Actually, in modern times with fast development of internet, online mandarin Chinese seems more ...

... us to drink one, two and even sometimes 3 at a time in order not to offend him. Luckily we all fared pretty well, but Matt and I were the target of much of the drinking. Maybe it was the baijui drinking the last week, but we held our liquor much better, to Mr. Cao's dismay of course. We were sort of thankful to say goodbye to Mr. Cao and were excited to go and see a ballet that we were told was happening tonight. The ballet was a ...

We get dropped off at the Qingxu service station at 2:30am. There's a 24hr convenient store, we find a row of plastic seats and tries to make it until the sun comes up. We have been on the road nonstop for 18 hours, have to wait 7 more hours before we can find a bed.

... we would show us one. We told her we'd like to buy her lunch and she said ok. It was nice to have her along as she explained about the area specialty Chongdong fish. Unfortunately it cost 240 yuan so we got a different fish but cooked the same way for 40 yuan. You ask what kind of fish for 240? Catfish. Keep in mind the exchange rate is about 6.5 yuan to $1.00 After a good and not expensive lunch Lucy asked ...

... Jenze jsme nemeli paru, kde stavi, tak sla pani s nama a zkousela nas ukecat. Coz mimo jine privedlo mou mysl k zubum. Nevim, jestli v tehle provincii jsou zubari tak drazi, nebo jestli tu na zubni peci kaslou, ale v zivote jsem nevidela tolik zkazenych zubu jako tady. Nakonec bus prijel, zastavil na krizovatce a zacal vykrikovat jmeno mesta, kam jsme chteli, tak jsme nasedli a jeli. Do Pingyao je to cca 40 kilasku, pohodicka, pekny vyhled na venkovske vesnice a tak.

... days. We purchased a heart-shaped lock from one of the vendors and had Seamus's name inscribed onto the back of it. Then we treked the rest of the way up to the west peak and affixed it to a chain that had a stunning view of the mountains and wished for our little buddy to rest in peace. The post is in memory of Seamus. Love ya little guy. You were the best doggy ever!!! (Typos to be fixed later / Sorry about the sideways panda pics)

... la calle del hotel y una vez ahí pudimos señalarle el hotel por las fotos que había visto en Internet. Aunque no me lo crean después de aprender que el chino es monosílabo, y de saber cómo se pronuncian las 7 consonantes que son completamente distintas a las nuestras ya puedo al menos decir algo. A esas horas que llegamos resulto imposible conseguir tickets de tren para PingYao donde pretendemos salir a primera hora. Pero esa historia viene en el siguiente....

... the stupid book is wrong!)!" Then they move on to guess the word, where one student faces the audience and another student looks at a word on the board and tries to get the other student to guess the word by describing it. Well, the cheating is rampant and unbelievable and then they ask us foreign teachers to go up as an example! I suck at these guessing games and charades and such, but don't do too badly and make the audience laugh - by the way, there are like 150 students ...