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By salexan8
December 29th 2009
Getting Ready Asia » China » Guangdong » Guangzhou
Our tickets are purchased and we are packing our bags. We leave January 7, 2010, to pick up Li Hai Qian from China. We will return on January 23--a family a four. [View Full Entry]

salexan8 - Shawn & Jennifer in China | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 29th 2009 | 12 Views | [diary=463560]


Macau's airport is basically a strip of asphalt built in the sea surrounding the little SAR (Special Administrative Region) with one taxi-way leading to the terminal building. Sitting in the aircraft it looks like you're floating on water, pretty neat! Landed at noon, and arrived by bus in central Macau at around half past one. The only cheap accomodation I had found beforehand, and I checked travelguides, internet etc. was a guesthouse on Travesso Do Felicidade called San Va hospedaria. The building basically had been divided into rooms by paper thin plaster walls that left a space of [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 25th 2009 | 26 Views | [diary=444971]

I just thought it was a nice building...
Macau street sign
St Dominic church

I am writing this after a very busy day, but I had a big smile on my face at the end of the day. Today I woke up at 6:45am or should I say the alarm went off at 6:45; then I crawled out of bed at 7:07 to catch the school bus at 7:30am. I had to assist Sophie with her speech at 8am until 11am even though I didn't teach my 3 classes until 2-5:15pm. After working on her speech, listening to her recite the speech and working on possible questions the judges could ask her Sophie thought she [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 22nd 2009 | 49 Views | [diary=462060]

Bear Slippers from Jansin class 8
Mug w/lid from Sally class 8
Red Pashima Scarf from Eric & Abby

Zhuhai Adventure / Rainy village After work on the Monday we thought it would be nice to catch the underground to a new party of the city to find some dinner, the first place we went turned out to be just factories so we went another stop further, the rain was really coming down at this point and we were in a place called Lijiu village, a really strange place made up completely of alleys with lots of little food places on the corners. It took us ages to find a suitable place to eat and we walked for a long [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 12th 2009 | 59 Views | [diary=459863]

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Zhuhai

By Jorisdevocht
December 7th 2009
Raining in China! Asia » China » Guangdong » Guangzhou
Today it rains in China! First time ive seen anything close to rain here so quite a novelty. last night we went shopping but found nothing . . . well I found nothing, paris bought all sorts of odd things. we did go to a really nice restaurant, in a little back alley which was fun. also we explored a big maze of alleys with all sorts of shops in it. look really cool, I should have taken more photos Tomorrow we have the day off and wednesday also so the plan is to take the coach bus down to Zhuhai [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 7th 2009 | 45 Views | [diary=458741]

Paris trying ladies clothes
Night market
why do they paint the trees

dumptydooo [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 6th 2009 | 30 Views | [diary=458457]

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Chimelong and Kparty The day started by getting the big scare of having Paris standing over me (I hadn’t heard him come in and he’s quite a scary guy to wake up to) but he had McDonalds breakfast so all was forgiven, a good start to the day. Then quickly get ready and catch the metro one stop away from our station to the Chimelong Paradise are. In the Chimelong area there is the worlds biggest water park, a really big circus and the huge theme park we went to. There were quite a few big roller coasters I was abit [View Full Entry]

Jorisdevocht - Joris de Vocht | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 6th 2009 | 40 Views | [diary=458490]

Matching jackets
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Wet ride (ride #1)

By Jorisdevocht
December 4th 2009
Mongolian breakfast Asia » China » Guangdong » Guangzhou
No sign of the police last night, the people in the office don’t think it’s an issue at all so were not worried. Yesterday one of the lady bosses gave me a really cool static lamp as an early birthday present, which was really cool. I think birthdays must be quite a big deal here. The office girls are all having a lot of fun with the Christmas decorations and we are still planning the Christmas party, or parties now as we have decided to have one for the younger students and one for the adult students. The internet net is [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 4th 2009 | 42 Views | [diary=458085]

Kate making snow
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Paris and Athen

By Jorisdevocht
December 3rd 2009
Lots of photos Asia » China » Guangdong » Guangzhou
I'm adding heaps more photos some from the start of the trip I didn't put up before.. over the last few days we have been twice to Kparty, a giant karaoke bar which is 8 stories tall. it is all made up of private rooms each with a a guy kind of like a butler who just gets anything we need. there is a huge free buffet there made up of about 12 different restaurants, like sushi places, places where they make soups with the ingredients you chose, we even tried baby birds (quite difficult to eat). From there we went [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 3rd 2009 | 47 Views | [diary=457896]

The western bar
western bar, lots of lanterns
western bar toilets, very fancy

By paristutty
December 3rd 2009
more photos Asia » China » Guangdong » Guangzhou
more travel photos from china, some are early ones from joris's camera, and a few from the last few days. lots of photos from K-party the karaoke mansion, 9 levels of private party rooms.and lots from out day off shopping with kate the bosses daughter. [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 3rd 2009 | 39 Views | [diary=457922]

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