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Driving lessons from a Chinese taxi driver
Today after class we made one of our final trips to the foreign students cafeteria! I enjoyed my favorite dishes, di san xian (three treasures of the earth) and dao dou (knife beans.) I decided to continue the search for the Baochu Pagoda next to West Lake. I took the bus to the lake and only had to walk about 5 minutes to find the entrance to the pagoda. To get there you have to walk up a a whole bunch of steps through lots of bamboo. There is ...
Tea Villages West of Xihu.. by bicycle...
... people are known for their prowess in business and the Hangzhou people are jealous of Wenzhou's prosperity. The joke about "being born with a tail" harkens back to what a Mexican lady's grandmother pointedly asked about me! I love it!
After 13 Km's we hit the famous "Metro" store where I can buy the ingredients for a proper ham sandwich and other expat niceties but I never go there anymore, since I am fully happy with Chinese food ...
Der letzte Visumskampf
... Job zu finden, ist derzeit aussichtslos. Da bilde ich mich hier lieber gleich weiter, Sie würden Ihren Sohn doch sicher auch nicht zuhause rumsitzen lassen. *hust*) herausgeredet. Außerdem wollte mein Bruder noch vorbeikommen (*hust*) und der kann ja kein Chinesisch. Dann hab ich noch auf die hübschen Hakkabauten gezeigt und gemeint, dass man für die Strecke ganz schön lang braucht, sie aber so berühmt sind und ich die unbedingt noch sehen muss. Mit meinem ...
Hangzhou UFO...??
All right then..
April 16th, 2011 between 12 to 3 o'clock
During the hiking trip a few weeks ago, I snapped several photos..
It was a nice day, and we were up in the mountains hiking. Birds were chirping, I could hear regular passenger planes going to and coming from the local airports, even a few military jets, as always, flying over the city.
Nothing unusual..
I was walking along, talking to a fellow hiker. There was a strange ...
Hiking in China's Bamboo Mountains
... much of China. When trekking around one finds old homes that at one time had a grand elegance to them. Those who know their history know that in 1949 the Communists came to power. As a result, many ex-pats left leaving their homes for the Communists. The Communists gave these homes to Chinese as part of a relocation program. Today one sees the remnants of Moganshan’s ex-pat history.
There is more to this area than the homes. ...
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