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Lukey - Luke Pickerill | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 6 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=319996] | 2008-09-05 08:53:40
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Training Upon arrival at the academy you get the option of 3 different martial art styles Shaolin (Flashy acrobatics with weapons) Baji (Shaolin for people that cant jump) Sanda (Practical fighting, kick-boxing and spend 90% of their time kicking or punching a bag). However you can swap at any time to another style and many students staying for longer periods will do a stint in each. I chose Shaolin as I was reliably informed the teaching there was the best in the academy and it has certainly pleased and impressed me. For my first week I recieved one-on-one training with a [View Full Entry]
Internet access is very random in this city known as Yanji. And so updates of my life here will also be very random. In fact, every aspect of my life feels very random here. I am currently typing on a table that is teetering back and forth as I write, making it extremely difficult to type with much accuracy or speed. Strange. Random. Mind-numbing. I find it very hard to write about what has been happening, as it blurs in my mind. My first day of work was on Christmas Day. Two teachers didn't come in, and so I taught their [View Full Entry]
Bilton - Martha Bilton | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=234868] | 2008-01-11 09:53:16
And so I didn't go to Australia, thinking that I wouldn't have the funds, and now I find myself in Yanji. What a place! They heat with coal, making the air so smoggy that it is worse than Beijing!! The sun is shining today, but I still cannot see the hills I know are in the distance. And it's freezing here. Even up until my flight yesterday, I was debating whether or not to come here. The upside is that the people at the school are very nice, and they are desparate to have me. This is because there are very [View Full Entry]
Bilton - Martha Bilton | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=229922] | 2008-01-11 09:20:27
Dalin wasn't such a great city for sightseeing, but we did get to eat some great food. We toured around the city and stopped at various places that looked out at some water. I bought a 20 tiered kite which looks awesome when flying. The guy I bought it from let me fly one before. The rest of the time was snapping pics and eating. We were there for a day. Between Dalin and Harbin we took a bus trip to another unnamed city Qu Qu (something.) and stayed overnight. This was a Saturday. When we went for breakfast at 7AM [View Full Entry]
Wawa - Walter Manuel | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 7 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=209628] | 2007-10-09 02:45:04
After staying two days in Jilin City (story to be written soon), we decided to hop a bus to nearby Yanji, capital of China's Korean Autonomous Region. Tucked up between Russia and our true motive for going, North Korea, we figured it would be an off the beaten path-type of escape. Almost true... Turns out Yanji is actually a pretty lively city. Much cleaner and newer looking than Beijing, the area's beautiful surroundings also caught us a bit off guard. I would say much of the rolling hills and small rivers resembles a really green Colorado. Gorgeous and a perfect climate. [View Full Entry]
TrojanTraveler - Peter Winter | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 2 Comment(s) | 11 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=169851] | 2007-08-08 17:21:55
Today is probably the highlight of my trip. We drove to Changbaishan, literally translated as "forever white mountain". It is generally acknowledged as the most famous mountain in the NE. The mountain rises in the southeast of Jilin province, or the northern part of Jilin's Antu County, and gradually extends southwards towards the North Korean border. It is the origin of the Manchu people. 6 of its peaks are in China, 7 in North Korea, and 3 shared by the two countries. The highest peak is named Baiyuan peak "white clound peak", and rises 2691m above sea level. It got [View Full Entry]
frequentflyer - Lawrence | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 13 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=169419] | 2007-06-02 00:00:00
This morning's first stop was Pu Yi, the last Chinese emperor's palace or residence in Changchun. He lasted a total of 3 years as the ruler of China. He was only 3 years old when crowned as the emperor. He was scared and cried as he sat on the throne. It was said that in an effort to comfort him the words "it's all going to be over soon" was used. The Qing dynasty was soon over too. Japan occupied China for 14 years starting in the NE on Sept 18 1931. Japan knew that there were still Qing loyalists [View Full Entry]
frequentflyer - Lawrence | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 11 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=169410] | 2007-06-01 00:00:00
Changchun = “Eeuwige Lente” is sinds 1954 de hoofdstad van de provincie Jilin. We logeerden niet in Changchun: het is slechts 2 uur bus verwijderd van Jilin, en we wilden alleen maar het paleis van de laatste Qing keizer Puyi zien. We reisden nog diezelfde dag door naar Jilin. We namen de bus naar Jilin in het langeafstands busstation, dit ligt ten opzichte van het treinstation, achter het Chunyi Binguan (hotel). De bussen vertrekken er om de 15min en kosten 23.5Y. De rit duurde bijna 2u30 in een comfortabele bus doorheen vlak landbouwgebied. Een taxi kost hier [View Full Entry]
China 2006 2007 - Berna en Wim | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=147583] | 2007-01-26 00:00:00
Donderdag 25 januari. Berna en ik hadden deze nacht op de trein goed geslapen. Een paar keer waren we wel even door elkaar geschud bij een wat ruw stukje spoorweg. In een slaapwagon moet je na het instappen je ticket inruilen voor een plastic of metalen kaartje. Voor de aankomst wordt dit weer gewisseld voor jouw ticket. De reden voor deze procedure is waarschijnlijk om nog eens na te gaan of ieder die in de wagon aanwezig is ook wel een ticket heeft voor een slaapplaats. Alle lege slaapplaatsen zijn dan ook bekend en mensen die geen slaapplaats maar slechts een [View Full Entry]
China 2006 2007 - Berna en Wim | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 30 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=124123] | 2007-01-31 04:42:51
We came to Changchun for one reason only: to see the palace of Puyi, the famous "Last Emperor" of China who's life has been the feature of several books and an academy-award winning movie. I read the book on which the movie is based shortly before we left on the trip, which I highly recommend. Puyi became the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty in 1908, before he had even reached his 3rd birthday. It was at this time that he was taken from his family and brought to the Forbidden City to begin his training as a member of the [View Full Entry]
but_home_is_nowhere - Hannah | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 7 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=268127] | 2008-04-20 04:45:57