http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Danyang/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Jiangsu , Danyang en-us Thu, 10 Dec 09 11:49:27 +0000 Thu, 10 Dec 09 11:49:27 +0000 With some trial software I put together this panorama view from right outside of our fifth story apartment that's 80 stairs up and 80 stairs down here at the school campus. Not much of a view but many days and nights have been spent just looking out over our school campus listening to the dull roar of the students as they take their ten minute breaks the rattling and pounding of the cafeteria http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Danyang/blog-458783.html Chinese National DayOur students were giddy and down right rambunctious last week as our school and the entire nation prepared to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Peoplersquos Republic of China on October 1st. Our kids knew the facts the PRC won the revolution and the losers limped over to Taiwan and started their own government there knew the reason Mao is very much a hero over here http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Danyang/blog-444911.html Still Humming About Tibet Hey everyday the power of the internet and blogs continues to amaze me. After my blogs on Tibet I received comments and messages from people all over the world expressing their gratitude you are welcome Becky and their outrage most were Chinese and not wellinformed. Anyway thank you everyone for your heartfelt messages and if I did not comment on your comment r http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Danyang/blog-439101.html Check out the map above. We are using it to show our travel plans starting from our home city DanYang and then four to five weeks of trains planes taxis trikes and just plain walking.ItineraryZhenjiang Jiangsu ProvinceFrom our city DanYang we are starting with a fast train to Zhenjiang because DanYang is so small we can't get to our first stop Jinan from here. Then we hop on another http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Danyang/blog-421270.html Before moving to China in January 2009 a year of researching taught me there are two issues not to be broached over here in the Middle Kingdom. All of the foreigners on all the message boards and websites call them The Big Trsquos Tienanmen Square is one and Tibet the other. For weeks after my arrival I danced around these issues when they came up. I remained polite and servile wanting to b http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Danyang/blog-420983.html Hello from the thriving metropolis of DanYang China. It's early Tuesday evening here pouring rain right now mixed with some small hail which is not unusual for this place and time of year. It is in the mid90's during the day with high humidity and it does not cool off in the evening but just like Tampa Florida we get some great storms here Me and Monkey Girl they have a children's TV show http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Danyang/blog-418453.html Went out for a nice meal this evening for our once a week date night and although at 600pm it was a balmy 94 degrees here in DanYang the 1 bus offered us a nice breeze and for 1 yuan apiece you just can't beat the scenery the smells the immersion deep into everyday life here in central China. We love taking the bus these days basically because a cab gouges us for 6 yuan about .60 but http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Danyang/blog-411112.html I almost ran right smack into her which would have been awful because like most of the Chinese students here she is barely five feet tall and I doubt she weighs 100 pounds soaking wet. With Audioslave blaring in my iPod and sweat dripping off my bald head and stinging my eyes I was on my 2nd lap around our high school track in the middle of the day. It's hot here now so hot the surface of the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Danyang/blog-408012.html All is well in the Land of the Misinformed and Comfortably Protected namely mainland China. Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square protests and for obvious reasons I'm not saying much about what this government does or does not do in response. I'm not on anybody's radar and I want to keep it that way. In the back of my head I keep hearing Dana Carvey's deadly accurate impression http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Danyang/blog-405062.html Along with the sixteen classes I teach each week here at my high school 55 kids per class around 960 kids I agreed to also teach an additional two classes on Wednesday afternoons for a group of bright motivated kids for an English Club EC. They asked Jenny to help me thankfully so we both get together and teach thirtytwo of the top English speaking students at my school and we really e http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Danyang/blog-401628.html 51909 1232pmAlong with adventure travel comes irony. And irony abounds here in our small city of DanYang China. Everything seems to be going great here as far as teaching enjoying our city seeing the other areas of China on the weekends but last night the internet began to hiccup for a few hours. First we could not get online at all and then when we did finally get back online it was inter http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Danyang/blog-400144.html Pictures from Danyang can be found herePictures of all the kid rides i have found are hereLast weekend January 5th we went to a place called Glass City or Danyang in Chinese. This place is famous for eyeglasses and believe it or not we went to buy glasses. We went with a whole entourage of people 10 to be exact. We all boarded the train to Danyang at 8 30 am. This was kinda crappy for a Saturd http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Danyang/blog-235502.html ltmeta httpequivContentType contenttexthtmlcharsetUTF8gtltmeta nameAuthor contentTonglei Ligtltmeta nameCopyright contentTonglei Li Redsailgtltmeta namedescription contentLow cost reliable Cutting Plotter Vinyl cutter Laser Cutting Machine Laser Engraving Machine from Chinagtltmeta namekeywords contentlaser cutting laser cutter laser engr http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Danyang/blog-200006.html When I heard my old junior basketball team the Melbourne Tigers were planning on a basketball tour of China I was quick to jump on the phone to see if the Tigers could hook me up. A few weeks later NBL legend Warrick 'Wazza' Giddey had me locked in for the Tiger's rookies and hasbeens tour of the provinces.Never one to waste an opportunity to explore my surroundings i took a couple of extra http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Danyang/blog-33704.html