http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Jupe/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Jupe en-us Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:26:32 +0000 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:26:32 +0000 This is me signing off folks My new blogsite will be at the following locationhttpelchinoamericanexpat.blogspot.comI have already posted an entry there to welcome you all. Please email me at darbyjigmail.com if you would like to be added to my new blog list. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Liaoning/blog-272216.html So yes this is possibly my last entry to those of you avid readers of mine if I have any. It was suggested to me that I continue writing however I have previously decided that I am no longer a traveler and that this particular blog site may not be suitable for me. Don't worry I will let you know when I select a good blog site for me what my new page is. Also I have recently discovered that http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Liaoning/Dalian/blog-270879.html I love the fact that my ipod is filled with songs of different languages embrace the fact that I can speak other languages love the idea that my children will be able to speak more languages from the beginning unlike myself or my husband did when we were growing up. These are things that are a part of me. I have to deal with the fact that English is becoming a universal language but I can fi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shaanxi/Xi-an/blog-258251.html Mom Can you tie my shoesYou look down at your seven year old kid holding out his shoe to you. Sure sweetie I'd be glad to.My conversation with student 1 a mother of a 2 year old sonHow do you teach a child to do something You know they have to have interest in something before they do it.Of course they do they're a child. So you just make everything into a game or a song and pr http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Liaoning/Dalian/blog-222313.html My fiance told me a really interesting story last night of his grandfather. I asked him why his grandfather didn't seem to enjoy talking too much and he told me that his grandfather was an extremely smart man who really enjoyed to read talk about politics and culture. He said that his father used to work for the government but during the cultural revolution he decided not to work as his job du http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Liaoning/Dalian/blog-221459.html I have set up photo albums for my Lao and Vietnamese travels at the following sites.Laos httpdenison.facebook.comalbum.phpaid2024775la4003id28502265Vietnam 1 httpdenison.facebook.comalbum.phpaid2025150l6565aid28502265Vietnam 2 httpdenison.facebook.comalbum.phpaid2025151l0d77bid28502265Let me know if they work. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-213986.html Sometimes it's really tiring being me. I often have to fight with other people because I'm American or because I am so young or because I am a woman who knows all the reasons people seem to pick on me. This time a Swiss man Lawrence and I had a fight because he insisted that America has no true American food an extremely common argument. He had been to New York so he thought he knew everyt http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Luang-Prabang/blog-211949.html I just had a dream about Cam. I went to his Salon but his employees were all gone there were only customers there waiting to get their hair done. I went into the Salon to look for Cam and they all told me where he was. All of the Salon employees were in a coffee shop cutting hair. On my way over to the coffee shop I ran into Leason and he could also speak English I told him his English was r http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/West/Luang-Prabang/blog-211946.html Today five of us woke up really early to go to Muang Sing to see the morning maret. I really enjoyed the food market as it was the most different from anything I've seen before. The vegetable market was selling some interesting things that included some sort of noodle jello Lao popcorn the biggest bunch of garlic I've ever seen as well as some Lao vegetables and snacks that I have no idea ho http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/North/Muang-Sing/blog-211937.html I seem to adjust to people I talk to. Xishuangbanna is a great place What do you mean by great placeI want to say whatever you think a great place is that's what it is but I just describe the kind of place he wants to hear to him. I picked that place simply because I know he will like it. I love watching people smile love listening to people laugh and love when others are happy. I just http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/North/Luang-Namtha/blog-211678.html It's very surprising to me that all of China has the same music I can go to whatever place I want and sing along to the Chinese and Western music since it's been the same ever since I first moved to China. I thnk it's pretty strange if every place in America had the same type of music people would go on strike. I'm just sitting now listening to the music as I'm waiting for my bus to Jinghong a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Yunnan/Kunming/blog-204467.html I was just looking for a restaurant from the Lonely Planet but I didn't find the first one I was looking for so I went to the second one and on the way I found a great looking Korean restaurant but of course every good thing comes with its' bad. When I was eating there was a really loud little girl behind me her parents just ignored her. She made me think of how I know her parents and Cam and http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Yunnan/Kunming/blog-204466.html Today I am extremely tired. I woke up at 630am and then got on a bus to Mohan again it was that same kind of horrible road with even worse driver where all you can do is hold on and hope you don't throw up which I was fortunate enough not to. Then I met an English guy who seemed to who only half wanted me around when I crossed into Boten where we waited for a bit until a sawngthaew took us http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Laos/North/Luang-Namtha/blog-204463.html On the plane I started to feel really alone there was no one to talk to and nothing to do. I slept for a while but when I woke up I had the urge to talk to someone so I ended up missing Cam a lot. After I got off the plane I went to ask whether or not Camellia Hotel had a bus like it says in the Lonely Planet. Turns out there was no bus but the man put me on a bus going in that direction al http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Yunnan/Kunming/blog-202952.html So I'm off on another trip around Southeastern Asia. I'm going to take my notebook again so I can keep a journal although I'm going to take some of it in Chinese this time so I may have to translate it when I get back hence the English might not be so good. I'm really looking forward to this trip http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Liaoning/Dalian/blog-202300.html Hui and I spent most of the day shopping. Afterwards we went out with Cam's friend. my what a strange time we had Cam started off the night even before his friend came by telling me that his friend wanted us to pretend like we were from TIGI and that I couldn't speak Chinese. i was like ... um ... ok ... It was quite an experience turned out his friend set it up so that I was a 28 year o http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shanghai/blog-192670.html She's a friend Cam says to another hairdresser with me standing right next to him. I think to myself Friend Since when are we friends but I don't say anything to him cause I know he'll be angry at me for asking him. It'll have to wait for a time when we're alone together which will have to wait another 5 days at least. We've just arrived in Shanghai for a show of theirs. It should be a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shanghai/blog-192667.html Ok. So since Cam and I are engaged to get married I've decided to drop the idea of not talking about him on this blog. It's impossible. I live with the man almost every cultural issue I have is with the man or his friends he's my life. If you don't want me to talk about my life then I can not talk about him otherwise it's not going to work.Anyways a lot's been going on over here recently. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Dongbei/Dalian/blog-175699.html I just went to buy a printer for the computer. It's 75 for an HP printer scanner and copier all in one and I'll be able to use it here and in the US. Right now I need to do a lot of printing and copying for the visa so it's important for now. If I copy and or print up to 500 things then I've already paid for the price of the printer so it's worth it. Anyways I was at the shop buying it with http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Dongbei/Dalian/blog-175781.html So I've been going through a bunch of tests in the past couple days.First of all I took a Chinese test this morning. It was a bit rough There were two parts of this test the first part was listening and the second part reading. The listening wasn't too bad. I know I made a couple mistakes one I chose the wrong answer and it kept going before I could change it two I didn't write one of the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Dongbei/Dalian/blog-170275.html