Zhongshan Hotel Lanzhou
No.426 Zhongshan Road, Chengguan District Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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Home Without the Gumtrees
... winter is the dry time here, so we’ll hardly get any snow we’re told.
The university is nestled into the side of the mountains - the land falls away sharply below us and rises sharply behind us. The city campus was established in 1950, is old and leafy and is where the staff in university housing live. (The new campus is about 50km out of Lanzhou, is modern and sprawling, and about half the students live out there. Owen’s teaching is all ...
Tibet (in all but name)!!!
... at least that's what I think that they were doing) and some monks pretending to do exercise but in reality they were just sleeping and some monks not even bothering to pretend to do exercise but merely chatting to their friends!
We visited the female monks living quarters and found it was like a slum with barely enough room to sit let alone sleep and live and when we saw the monks living quarters, we realised that the female monks must be a lot poorer since the ...
The trek from Tokyo to Bali
... to the customs official. He took our passports (another rub of the St Christopher) and returned 10 minutes later stating that we were being put up in a hotel close to the airport for the evening and ferried to and from it in a coach. We were to collect our bags and see an official downstairs.
Well a bed is better than two airport terminal seats in anyone's language so we ...
Lanzhou Story
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My new home for at least 6 months...the first week
... Has positive feedback from the senior FAO last night who rang me to say that the students thought I was a very experienced teacher who they could learn a lot from.....high praise after 1 lesson each. First classes start at 0740 and last classes finish at 1715 so its a long day for the students. Not too fond of the 0740 starts but only 2 this week so will have to see what Senior 1 brings.
Being the only foreign teacher I am a bit of a ...


