Kunshanlansekuaizhouchengshi(Chaoyangdian)

Well, it has been a great semester. Those of you that will be leaving soon, I am sad to see you go, we had some good times. From Beijing to Xi'an it was a good run. Be sure to keep in contact through FaceBook, email, or whatever else and I wish you all a safe return. Maybe we will meet up again someday, but if not, it was good to know you, and have fun ...

... kallista verrattuna metroon/taksiin ja muutenkin tosi hohhoijaa osastoa. Jos ei kertakaikkiaan mitään muuta tekemistä ole, niin käy sitten tsekkaamassa ja ajelemassa, mutta sinua on ainakin varoitettu. Ruokaa saa halvalla jos haluaa, mutta länsimaiset ravintolat on aivan älyttömän kalliita. Nyt ei huvittanut mitään "hot dogeja" ruvetä syömään, joten Pizza Hutissa huitaistiin ensimmäisenä iltana pizza naamaan ja hinta about 15 euroa! Hohhoijaa! Löydettiin myös vanha ...

I have finally started classes and experienced some nightlife! 'Bout time! So, Sunday night I got dinner with some friends, which was sooo spicy I couldn't eat it. At all. It was this chicken dish. One thing to note about chicken in China: you should not ever order it. They use the PARTS of the chicken. Never the chicken breast. I have learned my lesson twice now. Lol. The meat you recieve will be the head, feet, neck, joints. .. everything but the breast. Well, I was locked ...

... at the end of everything, so their Chinese comes out sounding much clearer. (even though Mandarin originated in Beijing). My Chinese teacher here told me that often times people from Beijing and Shanghai cannot even understand each other even though they are speaking the same language. We also visited Jinmao tower and the World Financial Center, which is only a few stories shorter (108 stories ...

... We went on to talk about the economic crisis and such things when he said something about understanding the poverty in China because he was on a student's budget studying Mandarin in Shanghai. I just looked at him incredulously and said that neither he or I had any idea what it was like to be poor much less have nothing. To begin with, we both had tickets with the face value of $380 regardless that I only paid 1/3 of that price. He protested with how he couldn't ...

... but when I got there, I saw that most of that road was interrupted by restaurants, yacht clubs and office buildings and I had to walk a kilometer or so out of my way to try and find some riverfront space of my own. After many hours of wandering and walking, I decided it was time for a change, and I headed into the mall nearby to peruse and check out their prices. Perhaps if I could find some good deals I would do ...

... communal projector. We hadn't seen the previous one, but it didn't matter because this one had enough cheese and corniness for all.Towards the end of the film our dinner arrived. The options were either beef and potato or a Korean dish: Bibimbap. Our curiosity got the better of us and with a bit of help from an instruction sheet and our seat neighbour we put it together. To our delight it was quite nice, and aside from the accompanying seaweed soup we devoured the entire tray ...

... in the gardens I headed back out amongst the millions and made my way out of the Bazaar and spent the next few hours walking around the little streets of the old Chinese Quarter. I loved it. The hustle and bussle, the smells and the colours. I sat for noodles in a little street market and then after a few ...

... touts are common, beggers, kids running up to you with there bowl, kfcs and mcdonalds every where, every 20 m, gerrad, tests them all, inbetween taking photos, everyone has a little catalogue to sell stuff 'watches, bags, dvd's' all day, every day, the most heard words. if not they want to show there restraunts menu, or they just want to talk to you, theres also of scams, where there 'students', who have an art exabition, not fooling us, so far anyway. we head out on a ...

... chacun connait quelqu'un qui a rencontre un homme de confiance lui ayant raconte que son oncle etait chasseur et qu'il en avait tue un lors d'un hiver de famine pour nourrir sa famille. Etc... Le lendemain matin commence la visite des tois gorges. On quite le grand ferry pour suivre le petit drapeau qui nous mene vers des embarcations de taille plus modeste ou l'on embarque a une vingtaine et ou un nouveau guide se charge de nous faire une explication rapide des trois gorges avant de ...