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swimming lessons
good to know that all those winter journeys to lessons in Peterfield paid off! Well done.
From Blog: First Place in University Swimming Competition!
Date: 10th July 2011
nice job!
awesome job in the swim meet! could you please email me some? i'd love to get these pics! i only have the group shot.
From Blog: First Place in University Swimming Competition!
nice job!
awesome job in the swim meet! could you please email me some? i'd love to get these pics! i only have the group shot.
From Blog: First Place in University Swimming Competition!
re: univ swimming comp
Well done u x But.... never mind the tight swimming trunks, its the hat that got me !!!!! Looking forward to seeing you at Hayling Island in both :-)
From Blog: First Place in University Swimming Competition!
Date: 13th March 2011
Happy Birthday to Erlend if you happen to get this on the right day! (I just know that Mum and Dad are visiting Erlend today, not sure which day exactly his birthday is). Thank you for the comment, the soup thing was just a hilarious translation in a menu, yes. There are so many funny mistranslations like that all over the place, because there's such a lack of people who can write good English. Sometimes they even go to the effort of making giant names of buildings out of metal and putting them up on the roof before checking whether it makes sense. It keeps you smiling when you're walking around, so I hope they don't learn too fast. But it also makes me wonder just how bizarre my Chinese could be sounding without me realising. I hope the job works out fine, and keep holding your breath for that card, which should actually be in ship or something by now! Pete
From Blog: Hainan Photos
Happy Birthday to Erlend if you happen to get this on the right day! (I just know that Mum and Dad are visiting Erlend today, not sure which day exactly his birthday is). Thank you for the comment, the soup thing was just a hilarious translation in a menu, yes. There are so many funny mistranslations like that all over the place, because there's such a lack of people who can write good English. Sometimes they even go to the effort of making giant names of buildings out of metal and putting them up on the roof before checking whether it makes sense. It keeps you smiling when you're walking around, so I hope they don't learn too fast. But it also makes me wonder just how bizarre my Chinese could be sounding without me realising. I hope the job works out fine, and keep holding your breath for that card, which should actually be in ship or something by now! Pete
From Blog: Hainan Photos
Date: 19th February 2011
Soup
Hi Peter I loved the soup photo - was it just a bad translation or what? Highly amusing! Glad to hear from Dad that you're enjoying teaching at the kids' winter camp - or maybe you're back in Hainan by now. You may or may not have heard Erlend and Kate had a boy, Finley Niall - quite an easy birth (to make up for Sam's). I'm going down on Thursday to look after Sam while E and K take Finley to have a hip scan - it looks as though he's O.K. though. Changing times at the magazine I write for: the editor' job is going, so goodness knows what that means for the future of the mag. Just keeping my fingers crossed! With love Auntie Julie
From Blog: Hainan Photos
Soup
Hi Peter I loved the soup photo - was it just a bad translation or what? Highly amusing! Glad to hear from Dad that you're enjoying teaching at the kids' winter camp - or maybe you're back in Hainan by now. You may or may not have heard Erlend and Kate had a boy, Finley Niall - quite an easy birth (to make up for Sam's). I'm going down on Thursday to look after Sam while E and K take Finley to have a hip scan - it looks as though he's O.K. though. Changing times at the magazine I write for: the editor' job is going, so goodness knows what that means for the future of the mag. Just keeping my fingers crossed! With love Auntie Julie
From Blog: Hainan Photos
Date: 6th January 2011
hi
a terrible experience...n we complain of our systems...this is worse than indian private hospitals where if the treatment is costly,the care is super...wishing u a speedy recovery.
From Blog: Hospital
hi
a terrible experience...n we complain of our systems...this is worse than indian private hospitals where if the treatment is costly,the care is super...wishing u a speedy recovery.
From Blog: Hospital
Date: 2nd January 2011
Wow!
I'm glad we've seen this after the event and you're ok. Amazing how respectable some parts seem like reception and others like the toilets are so bad. Maybe it's the more public areas.
From Blog: Hospital
Wow!
I'm glad we've seen this after the event and you're ok. Amazing how respectable some parts seem like reception and others like the toilets are so bad. Maybe it's the more public areas.
From Blog: Hospital
haha
哈哈 很有趣 you are genius！
From Blog: Floods, pro surfers, pigs, more floods, camels
Date: 23rd October 2010
This outdoes the compulsory military service in Norway!
Nice blog, Peter. It's taken me to now to get round to reading it, but it was worth the effort. What a year you are going to have. I'm not sure I could have handled the chaos! BTW Pretty neat that "pete tupper china blog" into Google puts you at the top of the list.
From Blog: Military Freshers
This outdoes the compulsory military service in Norway!
Nice blog, Peter. It's taken me to now to get round to reading it, but it was worth the effort. What a year you are going to have. I'm not sure I could have handled the chaos! BTW Pretty neat that "pete tupper china blog" into Google puts you at the top of the list.
From Blog: Military Freshers
Date: 22nd October 2010
Birnam Wood
Love the leafy headgear! Looks like Birnam Wood on the move! Hope all well re typhoon. Love Auntie Julie
From Blog: Military Freshers
Birnam Wood
Love the leafy headgear! Looks like Birnam Wood on the move! Hope all well re typhoon. Love Auntie Julie
From Blog: Military Freshers
Date: 28th September 2010
wow from a watersport fan
Really fun to read blog. How different nationalities act at the seaside is fascinating. When I was in Malaysia the muslim women went in the water fully clothed and also late in the day so just the westerners got burnt.. (this message is from a distant relative Charlie (was Charlie Dame).
From Blog: 'Paradise resort', surfing and Chinese Nightclubs
wow from a watersport fan
Really fun to read blog. How different nationalities act at the seaside is fascinating. When I was in Malaysia the muslim women went in the water fully clothed and also late in the day so just the westerners got burnt.. (this message is from a distant relative Charlie (was Charlie Dame).
From Blog: 'Paradise resort', surfing and Chinese Nightclubs
Date: 28th September 2010
who's this? and yes I did but mine just consisted of him yanking my limbs away from their sockets and putting all his weight onto my spine and clicking my neck, rather than sucking my skin into plastic tubs.
From Blog: Dodgy Massage, National festival, backstreets of Haikou
who's this? and yes I did but mine just consisted of him yanking my limbs away from their sockets and putting all his weight onto my spine and clicking my neck, rather than sucking my skin into plastic tubs.
From Blog: Dodgy Massage, National festival, backstreets of Haikou
Date: 27th September 2010
So didnt u get a massage then ?
From Blog: Dodgy Massage, National festival, backstreets of Haikou
So didnt u get a massage then ?
From Blog: Dodgy Massage, National festival, backstreets of Haikou
Date: 25th September 2010
holy cow!
they must be translated by some kind of crap translation software, totally make no sense. especially,"various types approve sa", the guy knew it's wrong, but maybe he just wanted to make fun, since English speaking people will love them.
From Blog: 'Paradise resort', surfing and Chinese Nightclubs
holy cow!
they must be translated by some kind of crap translation software, totally make no sense. especially,"various types approve sa", the guy knew it's wrong, but maybe he just wanted to make fun, since English speaking people will love them.
From Blog: 'Paradise resort', surfing and Chinese Nightclubs
This is so so yukkkkkkky! Must be hard getting used to their different tastes... x
From Blog: photos and china life
Date: 18th September 2010
Great Blog!
Heya Pete, Hope your doing okay :D Great blog - sounds like your having loads of fun and adventures. The pictures of the dog market made me real sad tho :( Don't eat the doggies lol!!! Hope your watersnake was yum... looks interesting!! :p Anyhoo... looking forward to reading more :D Take care love S xx
Great Blog!
Heya Pete, Hope your doing okay :D Great blog - sounds like your having loads of fun and adventures. The pictures of the dog market made me real sad tho :( Don't eat the doggies lol!!! Hope your watersnake was yum... looks interesting!! :p Anyhoo... looking forward to reading more :D Take care love S xx
Date: 15th September 2010
Humph
Rather doggy! Making sure Molly doesn't look. The campus looks real posh - what contrasts. Scary stuff on the streets, looks like a scooter/bicycle display team.
From Blog: photos and china life
Humph
Rather doggy! Making sure Molly doesn't look. The campus looks real posh - what contrasts. Scary stuff on the streets, looks like a scooter/bicycle display team.
From Blog: photos and china life
Date: 13th September 2010
pete!! it sounds amazing so far! chongqing is the same for randomneszs and lack of english. luckily iv got some chinese pals who i bring with everywhere i might actually need to do proper explaining haha. you got a chinese phone? im on 13500353942 if you do! xxxxxx
From Blog: Two stories
pete!! it sounds amazing so far! chongqing is the same for randomneszs and lack of english. luckily iv got some chinese pals who i bring with everywhere i might actually need to do proper explaining haha. you got a chinese phone? im on 13500353942 if you do! xxxxxx
From Blog: Two stories
Date: 13th September 2010
What a great update - It all sounds crazy! Great that everyone's so friendly because I'm sure the miscommunication will last a while longer haha! Good luck with everything, I'll keep following... Enjoy! X
From Blog: First Impressions!
What a great update - It all sounds crazy! Great that everyone's so friendly because I'm sure the miscommunication will last a while longer haha! Good luck with everything, I'll keep following... Enjoy! X
From Blog: First Impressions!
Date: 10th September 2010
Bizarre
Absolutely bizarre, what a different life. Glad the lessons are going well too. Hope your weekend goes (went) well,we may be going to the beach too.
From Blog: Two stories
Bizarre
Absolutely bizarre, what a different life. Glad the lessons are going well too. Hope your weekend goes (went) well,we may be going to the beach too.
From Blog: Two stories
Date: 8th September 2010
first impressions of your first impressions
Great. More......... XXXXXX
From Blog: First Impressions!
first impressions of your first impressions
Great. More......... XXXXXX
From Blog: First Impressions!
Date: 8th September 2010
Brilliant!
Keep the reader hanging on, a very clever technique. It all sounds amazing and I can imagine why you find it all such fun. looking forward to hearing more anon.
From Blog: First Impressions!
Brilliant!
Keep the reader hanging on, a very clever technique. It all sounds amazing and I can imagine why you find it all such fun. looking forward to hearing more anon.
From Blog: First Impressions!
Oma
non-member comment
Hi Pete! Great to know you are somewhere-Turkey I believe or Greece ? I shall miss your blog- it was great and you certainly made the most of it and lived to tell the tale. Much. love and hopefully not too many more adventures in the next week from oma
From Blog: (Final Entry) Goodbye China, Hello Austria!