Kaifeng Hotels - Comments and Reviews

17th March, 2009 On the third day of our trip, we went to visit an agricultural primary school .We pretended to be their teachers and went to visit different classmates .We taught primary one student. When we went into the classroom, they were very excited and sat properly. We taught them how to fold the papers in order to make some marine organ...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya What an unexpectedly wonderful day today was! Luo Wei has told me to go to Qingming Gardens on several occasions but until now it just hasn't fit into my ever so busy and tight schedule. Today I woke up and actually felt like visiting a theme park so I figured it was time to pen in the Qingming Gardens (which is now...

Ok, now that I've started the third week of classes, I've begrudgingly accepted that Spring Festival has ended. I'm done post-dating my entries and I'm back to real time. Once you spend enough time in China, you "stop being surprised that you're surprised," as my friend Jackie puts it. He's Chinese and most days he's surprised at the circumstan...

Day #2 in Kaifeng provided great entertainment. We had lunch at a famous baozi restaurant with two of Emily's Chinese students, who's English names are Cherry and Tiny. Cherry is one of the kindest, most personable individuals I have met during my time here in China. Not to mention her English is impeccable. The restaurant we went to had excelle...

As many of you know, I like the 1980s a lot. I also like John Stamos a lot. What do they both have in common? Mullets. What do they have in common with China? Mullets. What did they have in common with me for a couple of hours this week? Mullets. I've been joking about getting my hair cut for awhile. My students have spectacularly bad haircuts (...

For awhile, I didn't think I was going to find a place in Kaifeng where it felt like I wasn't in the city. With the city's constant movement and floods of people on the street and on campus, I was starting to accept that China doesn't have the space for big parks like Central Park or the Boston Commons. The one place I thought I could find it w...