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Travel Blogs from Zhuzhou
Dodging spit and snot
Seriously.
I probably looked like I had a neck deformity because I always had my head down to weave through gobs of spit and snot on the sidewalk/street.
Changsha was a step up from Hengyang in terms of how much it had going on, but it's not exactly somewhere I would want to go back to visit again. That's the truth of it.
The pollution was so bad that even after heavy rain, it did nothing to improve the ...
My story book of life
... bright colored manicures, wearing lense-less hello kitty fashion glasses, I eat street BBQ(Shao Kao) and fried rice with no unfortunate stomach issues, and up until a few days ago I had only been using chop sticks to eat meals (I ate dinner at a Chinese family's house and they pitied my chopstick skills, noticing how I struggled they brought me a fork). Though I enjoy China and have been acclimating to ...
K458
K458 Departs 07.10
After much deliberation we decide to get the train from Guilin to Changsha, so that we could visit Wulingyuan National Park. After the usual combination of google translate, charades and Chinese accents akin to the policemans French accent in Allo Allo we managed to purchase two tickets. Ok it was from Changsha north, but no biggie we would leave a bit earlier, say 6am, no 5.30 as advised by ...
I met Akon this week in Changsha...Random? Yes
... Goodness.
Why am I happy here? Lets go over somethings.
I finally feel like I am doing something different. As much as I love my family and friends back home, I was struggling with an inner yearning for new life experiences. I have only been here a month but already I am happier than I have ever been. I am finally seeing the world and I hope it doesn't stop with China. I am going to be working ...
Trein + changsha
Vandaag worden we opgehaald door onze school. Mijn kamergenoot, een Amerikaan genaamd Jan, is al vertrokken. Met degene die later vertrekken, zal ik eerst nog lunchen, waarna ook wij op weg gaan. Huaihua is meer dan 5 uur met de bus/auto. Max, een Russische jongen die vanaf zijn 9e in Engeland woont, is ook in mijn school geplaatst. De derde leraar van onze school schijnt al in Huaihua te zijn. Ondanks de warmte en alles wat me te wachten staat, voel ik me redelijk bestand. ...