May 24th,i went to railway station to pick julia.then we went to dengfeng by car.It took 2 hours from Zhengzhou to Deng,On the way to Dengfeng,we had enjoied the time .I talked about the history of Henan and Zhengzhou .Julia enjoied a lot.We had a nice time together. The next day,we went to tour the Shaolin Temple.All the people know that ,shaolin kung fu is so famous in the world,making the temple more and more famous than before .We went to DHARMA'a cave and climbed to the top of the monutain.IT was amazing and excited! We met one fortune teller ,each [View Full Entry]

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Well, we have just spent the day visiting the home of Kong Fu and I am most impressed. We arrived in Shaolin from Luoyang after visiting the Longmen Caves which is one of China's few surviving masterpieces of Buddhist rock carvings. While in Luoyang we spent the day checking out the entire face of a mountain which has been carved into a thousand images of Buddha. The detail in the carvings made it a very impressive sight. We got to Dengfeng on a local bus while dealing with the usual confused expressions, spitting and language barrier issues. The pointing, staring and [View Full Entry]

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So as you probably noticed it has been a pretty long time since Phil posted his last blog, this is because the computer that he is using in China is not letting him sign onto the travelblog website. I chatted with him online this morning and his computer shut off 7 times in one hour. He has been writing his blog on his laptop but since his laptop wont connect to the internet in his room he can update so when he starts traveling and has a better connection he will post all his blogs that he has been saving up. [View Full Entry]

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I'm Back Sorry that it took me more than a month to get this entry out. Teaching your own language is tougher than it appears. Honestly, when I started writing this entry, it began, "after a week of classes..." Right now, it is week six of classes...so I am a little lazy. No, actually, it has been very busy for me. As time past, I just slowly added more and more on. This entry has grown, I have nurtured and raised it to be the monstrosity that you find before you. Before beginning, I would strongly suggest taking at least one [View Full Entry]

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it's time to say goodbye to china... The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of sleep deprivation, long train rides, sunflower seeds and music. The three fungal horses set off from Kunming in mid-May after a couple of great gigs there and in Dali, and headed up to Chengdu. Kunming... the city of eternal spring finally pulled out the stops and gave us some good weather just before we left. Kunming was all about quebecan bluegrass, dodgy dvd's, the first snow in 10 years (eating shit on the mountain), late night ridiculousness, and flea markets. Dali, as usual, was all [View Full Entry]

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Well, here I am in Xinxiang It is quite different from Beijing...it's real China. The city is small by Chinese standards, but roughly 750,000 people call it home. Of which I would say around 50-75 are foreigners...mostly students or teachers from within Asia itself. So being white, I stand out pretty obviously. Ok, back to when I first got to Xinxiang...we arrived by speed train (so it took us 4 hours from Beijing). We were picked up at the train station and were off to the school. Now when I mentioned the driving in Beijing, I think I spoke to soon. [View Full Entry]

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Well we made it.... We missed the Ferry from Victoria BC Canada to Vancouver due to weather and high winds so we caught a taxi to the Victoria airport with a nice lady named Tara that was on her way to Las Vegas. We ended up paying about $270 CAD for two tickets to Vancouver where we connected to our Hong Kong flight. We were luck enough to get four seats in a row so (we) could get some sleep. Sindy managed to get about 5 hours and I got about 15 minutes... Don't think I will ever want to watch [View Full Entry]

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On Friday, Jan. 18th we found ourselves back in Hong Kong with goal #1 being, change Stephanie’s tourist visa to a work visa. After crossing the Shenzhen/Hong Kong border at Luowu, we headed straight for the visa office where Cody kept our packs company outside (they’re not allowed in the PSB, FYI) for two hours while Stephanie waited for her #, handed in her paper work, and crossed her fingers. The visa wouldn’t be processed until the following Monday, which gave us the weekend to once again explore Hong Kong. After some extensive searching at the various hostels in both Mir [View Full Entry]

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After leaving the huge thunderstorm behind in Xian we made our way by train to Luoyang. We were lucky enough to actually have seats for the 5 hour journey, not like all the people perched in the aisles. We stayed at this weird low budget hotel where we got a suite, not just a tiny room. Very bizarre, mind you it hadn't been cleaned in a while, oh well. We met a British/Chinese guy teaching in Hong Kong and headed off to Shaolin Temple (home of Kung Fu). We were on a bus from our Hotel that stopped at a whole [View Full Entry]

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Meine 11tägiger China-Round-Trip ist beendet und morgen gehts zurueck nach Muenchen. Hier schonmal der Bericht ueber die ersten 3 der 11 Tage. Die weiteren liefer ich dann am nächsten WE nach, weil ich in München erstmal kein Internet hab. In der Woche vom Vatertag hiess es erstmal Abschied nehmen: Ein Abschiedsessen mit den Deutschen, die ich hier kennen gelernt hab, ein zweites mit den 3 chinesischen Studenten, mit denen ich hier viel gemacht hab und ein drittes natürlich noch mit meiner Abteilung und meinem Chef (der uebrigens arrangiert hat, dass unsere Merkels Angy am 28 August hier [View Full Entry]

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