Hi everyone, Sunday, 8:30 AM Well, just about one week here in China.......and this is the first chance we have got to use the internet. The flight was extremely long and tiring but, the excitment kept us going for over 30 hours of wake time, which only meant a very good sleep that night. We have adjusted to the time differance quite well. This ...

Just landed in Chongqing after a fabulous train ride from Lhasa. Two days of great scenery and now I go off on a 3 day Yangtse River cruise. But first the train ride. I was sharing a soft sleeper compartment with a Chinese couple that happened to have an even more updated version of my Sony High Definition camcorder. We were in a coach capable o...

Holy socks! Who could believe we're into November already...I sure can't, especially since the weather here is still fairly hot and sunny. We've actually seen blue sky for two days in a row, which has been absolutely unheard of so far. It feels more like May than November that's for sure. I'm definitely not feelin too sad to be hear when I hear ...

So, the bus journey.. We set off from Wanzhou at around 4.30 and drove through the back streets of this busy city. It was a fairly slow procedure and it took us ages to reach any sort of road that took us over the 2 mile an hour mark. We had to stop in a bus station to pick up some more helmets so that meant i could do a quick fag run to the sho...

Well, we all made it over hump day, which was a relief. My roomie Meagan taught he first lesson yesterday, which we all watched as a "watch and learn" session. Today I am teaching my first lesson on stationary. I get to begin by introducing myself as a new english teaching teacher, sing this is the way..., ask for all of the students names, tell...

So, today we had most of the morning to explore the city. We woke up for breakfast, which was okay, then decided to go play on the internet for a while. Nothing to exciting, Chongqing isn't really that big of a tourist destination and most of the cool things to do nearby aren't actually in the city and we don't wanna leave 'cause missing our boa...

We spent most of the day traveling to Chongqing. There was some uncertainty about where to pick up the bus we had booked. We thought it was the station where we had booked it, but everyone said this was not the long-distance bus station. It turned out that it started at the bus-station we expected at 10:40 and then drove to the other one, not le...

We had been in Guangzhou for only a matter of hours, and we decided to move on. Guangzhou was just another huge industrial city, and we wanted to see rural China, with rice fields and mountains and peasants. So we left our hotel in search of the train station. We ventured under the huge multilane road from our hotel to the train station via a su...