Riyueming Hotel (Dalian Qingni)
Travel Blogs from Dalian
Halloween China Style
... to wear out. A few weeks ago we had decided to dress up as characters from the Wizard of Oz. Unfortunately, Anthony had a bad bout of food poisoning the day we scheduled to go costume shopping, which meant that Saturday morning, I had virtually nothing for his Tinman costume. Thankfully, Laura and I are good guerrilla shoppers/ costumers and we magically found everything we needed in time to head out to the parties. Amazingly enough we even found a ...
我在中国生活
... lunch sometimes I play guitar, sometimes I wash clothes (by hand), and sometimes I browse the internet. In the afternoon my Italian friends and I used study at our favorite cafe, but now that cafe is closed. Now we go to a classroom to study. In the evening we usually go to a restaurant to eat dinner; we all think Chinese food is delicious! After dinner sometimes we go to a bar, or sometimes we hang out in somebody's room. I think every day ...
Kindergarten part 2
Ok so I am currently writing this as I hide in a curtained section of the kindergarten so that I don't scare the new child. She is less than two years old and this is her first day at a kindergarten away from grandma and mom. She is very freaked out and apparently scared of the strange white teacher. It turns out that my "big eyes" scare her. I usually think of my big eyes as my best feature, but apparently they are terrifying to ...
What I've Been Learning
... because they don't believe they're capable and worthy of something great, and I hope to influence them to believe the opposite. Also, this teaching job is exactly what I've been dreaming of doing for the past several months, and getting to live out a dream is always amazing.
Please keep me in your prayers as I strive to live and love from my heart. And pray that I devote myself and work hard at teaching these students.
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A police escort
... respite from the city. We now know where the aquarium and zoo are located too. One of my favorite parts of the day came when he showed us the old Russian architecture in comparison to the Japanese architecture. There is a street in town with a number of old Russian buildings from when Russia occupied Dalian. At the end of the main Russian streets is a completely abandoned palacial building that got both Anthony and my creative ...