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mark op reis - Mark | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 2 Comment(s) | 1 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=314992] | 2008-08-22 14:44:16
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So, finally I get round to writing my first blog entry for China. My flight out of here leaves in four days, but obviously I've been busy getting that changed to a more suitable/sensible date. By now I have my sights set on staying here for a while to do some teaching, but my first taste of China wasn't that positive. I had read in my guide book that the chinese border police occasionally confiscated China lonely planets, so I heeded their advice and put a different cover on the book. I even checked with the Sapa post office to see [View Full Entry]
Well, I finally found out how much I'm going to be teaching, and it's going to be really easy! I teach 6 hours a week, only on Thursday and Friday afternoons, teaching oral English to PhD candidates. Then I have four or five two-hour lectures (over the whole semester) on English essay writing for MA candidates. Overall, I'm probably going to need lots more to do with my time, so I'm thinking about asking another lady we know for a job, and also taking Chinese classes! Since I'm only teaching in afternoons, I'll have mornings free, which is when the language [View Full Entry]
stuhlsem - Erin Stuhlsatz | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 2 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=314592] | 2008-08-21 13:02:07
Yunnan, one of the 27 provinces in China that has 23 tribes out of 56 tribes in China. [View Full Entry]
rainstorm - Javine Wong | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 16 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=314106] | 2008-08-20 09:32:42
Hey Everybody! So, I'm here in Kunming, pretty much settled into my apartment. The apartments for foreign teachers are gigantic! We get a huge living room (which is completely empty, of course...who'd have though I should have brought a rug and random wall hangings?), a nice bedroom (with two beds! So come visit me!), a bathroom (currently suffering from a cockroach infestation), and a silly kitchen (it is silly because it contains neither kitchen utensils nor any sort of cooking device). We don't start teaching until August 25th (or maybe later, who knows?), so Barbara and I have been [View Full Entry]
stuhlsem - Erin Stuhlsatz | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 4 Comment(s) | 2 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=313764] | 2008-08-19 04:21:26
9/8/08 Yunlong Prefecture was another important trading post in the old day. Could go back 2000 years. In the area they got some very good salt-mine, and in ancient China salt could rated with gold or silver, so horse-troops made journals here for salt and the area became prosperity. And since Tang dynasty they began to built bridges all over the region to made travel more easiler for traders, not only for salt, as they got many other mineral mines too. And today Yunlong Prefecture is one of the good area thst could see many old bridges, like the official promoted...the [View Full Entry]
3xuok - Tamwai | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 38 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=312376] | 2008-08-15 11:21:22
Road to Beijing - Day 15 Following our anniversary embarassment, we headed out to do some serious sightseeing aiming to ask inciteful intelligent questions to reclaim some pride amongst the locals of liajang. However our first stop at a monastary just saw us dancing like giant bufoons with tiny weeny local ladies before James impromptu nose bleed lead to the guide wanting to take us to hospital. Nadia's "carry on it happens all the time" was greated with looks of amazement as she strolled up the hill having dismissively thrown the toilet roll it is essential to have with you in [View Full Entry]
nadsjd - NadsJD on Tour | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 6 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=310852] | 2008-08-11 13:39:00
The T62. An Insight by Farhat Jah. Every night the Tibetans would meet in an elevated square and dance in a large choreographed circular fashion to loud music. We could not work out whether this was practice for a festival in June, or whether this was a normal facet of life in Zhondian. In any event, the townsfolk seemed to enjoy their dancing enormously. Young women in jeans would dance next to city slickers in skirts, boots and stylish coats, next to old men in sports jackets and trilby’s. Every night we would gravitate to the square to watch the routine. [View Full Entry]
turkishraf - Farhat Jah | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=309685] | 2008-08-08 10:40:36
Road to Beijing - Day 12 Ahhh! The mountains no pollution and cool air, so having moaned about the heat in true Brit style we will now moan about the cold and the rain although still a very palatable 19-22 degrees. We left the beautiful countryside of Yangshou and headed to the beautiful countryside of Yunnan province firstly the stone forest of Shi'lin and now in the Mountains of Lijiang. To reach the stone forest we stayed in Kunming City, which is kind of like staying in Birmingham to go and see the Peak district! It was Big and concrete and [View Full Entry]
nadsjd - NadsJD on Tour | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 12 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=308555] | 2008-08-06 13:55:50
Where to begin?! Stats: Yunnan borders Burma to the west, Vietnam to the South, Guangxi to the east and Tibet and Sichuan to the north. Constant elevation - above 9000 feet. I flew with Karen (the taller) and my best friend in China- Ivy for a 10 day trip to Yunnan Province not knowing really what to expect. But boy oh boy... This is by far my favorite location in China (thus far - I intend on returning within 2 years). The whole duration we were at an elevation of no less that 9000 feet, surrounded by mountains with snow covered [View Full Entry]
JDTG2003 - Jonathan Dicks | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 105 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=308041] | 2008-08-04 04:34:08
3/8/08 Weixi town (@2200m)was built on a slope, so you always find yourself walking up and the the road. Transportation in the area mainly done by minibus, as most of the road condition were ok, only small part of bad road in every 10km, perhaps it was anotherway for speed control???!!! Not much info about thing to see and do in the area, the highest noise was come to visit the so call "3 River running parallel ", but....how could you see the 3 river unless from the plane? Anyways...visited a catholic church in Xiao Weixi which was created by French [View Full Entry]
3xuok - Tamwai | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 14 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=312371] | 2008-08-15 11:21:09