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By chinacanuck
December 25th 2009

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Asia » China » Hubei » Wuhan

The project begins

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our far away family and friends!! I hope everybody had a great day. We had a great Christmas Day here in Wuhan. Outside, it was business as usual in the city but inside it was Christmas Day for all us expats. Nancy gave me a foosball game for Christmas which took most of the day for me and my two helpers to asemble. How she got the thing home from the store and up our staircase is a story in itself; let's just say that the box was too heavy for me to [View Full Entry]

By Hans
December 24th 2009

#120 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (2009/2010 Holiday Wishes, A Visit to Wuhan, Hubei, and a Fall 2009 Photo Essay of TTC) Asia » China » Jiangsu » Taizhou » Taizhou Teachers College

Christmas Performance in the New Grand Theater of Taizhou

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2009 AND HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010 --- In China the "Spring Festival" will honor it as The Year of the TIGER !!! 2009 IS MY 4TH CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY SEASON IN CHINA, AND THE TIME AT TAIZHOU TEACHERS COLLEGE IS JUST AS EXCITING AS DURING MY FIRST YEAR. I WISH ALL OF MY FAMILY, MY FRIENDS, MY STUDENTS AND COLLEAGUES (past and present), AND THE HUNDREDS OF READERS OF MY TRAVELBLOG FROM SO MANY COUNTRIES A VERY HAPPY HOLIDAY TIME. THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING TO SHARE MY ADVENTURES IN CHINA, AS WELL AS FOR YOUR MANY GENEROUS COMMENTS AND KIND [View Full Entry]

More holiday wishes from my home in Taizhou Teachers College.

Everyone of my classes helped in a Christmas celebration.

All of my students at Taizhou Teachers College are special.

By Greenwoods
December 24th 2009

Christmas Eve Asia » China » Beijing

Tianemen Square

This is Mark again, and I'm going to go ahead and give a run down of our day and only post a couple of pictures from my iPhone. Later, we'll come back and add pictures once Deb is awake. Merry Christmas by the way, as it Christmas morning here! We started the day real early to visit Mao's Mausoleum before the line got long. The subway was quite an adventure at 7:30am in rush hour. Each train was packed and we ended up waiting three trains until all six of us could squeeze in together. We ended up waiting only perhaps [View Full Entry]

By Boolia
December 23rd 2009

Beijing China Asia » China » Beijing » Forbidden City

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Beijing China, Forbidden City. [View Full Entry]

By Boolia
December 23rd 2009

Beijing China Asia » China » Beijing » Olympic Park

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Beijing China, Olympic stadium and Summer Palace. [View Full Entry]

By Boolia
December 23rd 2009

Xian China Asia » China » Shanxi

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Xian China, Warriors. [View Full Entry]

By Wuhanais
December 23rd 2009

Jinghong / Xishuanbanna Asia » China » Yunnan » Jinghong

Le jardin botanique de Jinghong.

ATTENTION : N'oubliez pas de cliquer sur le lien de la carte si elle ne s'affiche pas bien et de zoomer le cas échéant, et d'aller tout en bas du texte pour passer à la deuxième page de photos. 23-12 Nous commençons la journée par un petit dej bien mérité et un tour de nos appartements au Yourantai. Conçu, construit et géré par un suisse et sa femme sino-américaine, c'est une petite forêt dans laquelle 4-5 petits pavillons ont été judicieusement dispersés. Le tout en bois et d'un style asiatique très sobre et réussi. Pour le petit dej, nous nous régalons [View Full Entry]

By jpetey75
December 23rd 2009

Kunming and going home Asia » China » Yunnan » Kunming

monica in the kunming hotel

The next day we headed for Kunming, which as another long bus ride. Absolutely nothing exciting happened on the bus ride, and the landscape was flattening out so nothing spectacular to look at either. As we approached Kunming large buildings started popping up all over. By the time we got to our hotel we were in the middle of a very industrialized, relatively dirty city. From the beginning none of us were impressed with Kunming, it was our last stop so it was kind of disappointing, but we were all tired and about ready to head back to Beijing. Kunming had [View Full Entry]

By Paul Mc
December 23rd 2009

a day in shanhai Asia » China » Shanghai

Shanghai

Well as you probably know i have been in china for a little while now, i have decided i am going to make a few observations about the Chinese and China itself... First of all let me say that the Chinese are without doubt some of the most friendly, helpful people i have had the great pleasure to meet... (And the place is truly spotless and i thought jersey was clean!) However there are some “small” cultural difference between the Chinese and us good old Brits. Our well known love of queuing has not caught on so much in China, the [View Full Entry]

By Minna1004
December 23rd 2009

good weather- useful day Asia » China » Jiangxi » Nanchang

yesterday wei had the day off so we went to hong cheng market in search of appliances to finish setting up the apartment. we got a rice cooker for 70 RMB (this was after a long debate- do we buy the pretty pearlescent pink one or the larger, more practical midea model? wei threatened that if i didn't hurry and make a decision, he would buy the crappiest one we saw). but aesthetics won and we came home with the pink one, as well as a pink mop, a couple random scarves, and a five-tiered shelf for my makeup/perfume/other girly stuff. [View Full Entry]

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