http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Hebei en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:07:48 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:07:48 BST I visit the Eastern Qing tombs where several members of the Qing dynasty 16441911 including the tomb of the Empress Dowager Cixi who controlled the country by using her very young relatives as puppet emporers. The underground palaces containing their coffins are dank and spooky places eerily lit with green halogen lamps.I begin my obsession with photographing chinese rubbish bins... http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Qinhuangdao/blog-297371.html I pay my second visit to the Great Wall this time near the far Eastern end and to the more modern parts built of stone during the Ming dynasty.The plan is to do a 10km hike along a stretch of it thus accounting for 0.1 of it's original length. I set off at a brisk pace as we're being followed by women with big bags trying to seel us tourist tat. It's quite a hot and humid day and the wall i http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Chengde/blog-297368.html I arrive in Chendge late in the evening and the town has been quite badly flooded. Fortunately most of the water has subsided by morning and the weather brightened a little but the streets are still covered in mud.I visit the Imperial Palace and Summer Villa and stroll around the very beautiful park and grounds. They have deer running wild that bite if you get too close take my word for it... http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Chengde/blog-297365.html It's been a week since I posted anything and it's been a jampacked 7 days. Got a lot of creative writingreflectionpicturetaking done too but don't have time to include that here. I'll post a link to pics and just ask if you wanna know more about the personal writing efforts. 9 p.m. an already tired so let's get this started...RECAP written on bus 627...Late Mondaycurrently listening to http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Shanhaiguan/blog-293553.html Hey all So it feels like years since I have posted. I figure now that things have calmed down a bit I'll fill everyone in on what i've been doing. I can't really remember the month of March it just flew by so I'll start in April. At the start of April we had our accreditation inspection. Well this was just a fabulous feeling. It was three days of having someone sit in my classes check my lesson http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/blog-278235.html After a decent sleep only waking up a few times on Tuesday night I started my first day of work at Agricorp. When I woke up I decided that I should probably shave since it had been two days only to realize that I couldnrsquot find a mirror in the apartment. Not in my room the hallway not even the bathroom. I suppose that Chinese assume that they always look good and as such there is no http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/blog-274348.html George has been asking me to take pictures around my school and apartment since I got here and Lindsey and I finally got around to it yesterday. We started in our apartment which they are redoingI will take pictures of the inside of our rooms when I'm done unpacking We walked through the market then to Water Park and discovered an odd show in the upstairs of a temple. On our walk home we st http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Shijiazhuang/blog-254172.html A quiet and relax holiday This is my first blog in travelblog. I'm Chinese. I'd like to say more but i am still studying english. It's looks like so hard to use this bloyhaha. But i like travel and photograph. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Qinhuangdao/blog-253211.html Maggie and Jo have been telling us how great it is to visit the hot springs during the winter. The temperature dropped and Cori's sister Jessi was in town so we decided to make the trip. When we woke up at 6 we peeked out the windows to find the trees topped with fresh snow. Cori Jo Jessi and I left at 7am to begin our 4 hour journey outside of the city. We drove through the rural areas as http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/blog-237312.html I came back 'home' in Hohhot on the 20th of December form Hong Kong. Only had to work for 3 days including a christmas party organised by school in the brandnew 5 ShangriLa hotel on the 23rd.Had to take the night train to Beijing that same night so made sure I drank enough beers beforehand see HohhotThe perils of modernlife in a desert city and too some extra with me in the train as well. Wa http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Qinhuangdao/blog-230454.html Oh mon dieu l'appart bute des culs de la mort qui tue avec un aka 44 Il est vraiment bien en prime Trois chambres dont une sa propre chambre de bain D Dsl MarieEve mais je la rserve .... Elle va aussi tre la chambre d'invit Ai pas peur ...Pour ceux qui ce le demande Dieu c'est mon pre .... PAPA ARRTE TU CONFONS LES GENS. Non mais.Bon pour des dtails sur ma vie actuelle .... Ya pas gr http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Shijiazhuang/blog-227437.html J'ai officiellement une job DUne ecole publique a Zhengding une demi heure de Shijiazhuang ... genre Sullivan de Val d'Or A engagee moi et MarieEveOn commence officiellement le 15 de mars Sa tombe bien parce que depuis que MarieEve est la je ressent le mal du pays Aussi avec les bonnes viennent les mauvaises ... la grandmere de ME est morte ce matin .... alors elle repart Jeudi et http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Shijiazhuang/blog-227435.html Soit heureuse Boubou tu va me voir a la tele XDLa tante de Jenny travaille pour HebeiTV Genre TeleQuebec et je suis aller sur le plateau d'un jeu televisee P Ils m'ont fait assir en premier rang d'une equipe et venir sur le plateau. Je vais en avoir une copie en Mars que je vais envoyer a la maison. C'est dure de me manquer je suis la seule avec un gilet vert pomme qui est assez flash.J'ai ri http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Shijiazhuang/blog-227434.html Bon pour la premire journe dans la famille d'accueil a t tout un choc. Premirement je suis arriv la journe mme de la fte de Jenny la fille de la famille. Alors ils m'ont invite au restaurant selon eux un des plus cher pour son anniversaire. Mais comme la famille a apprit que je venais ils sont tous venus. XD Il y avait la soeligur du ct du pre et son fils il y avait la petite http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Shijiazhuang/blog-227433.html Samedi j'ai t invite a un mariage chinois dans un petit village DRsume de ma journe longue journeDebout a 4h parce que la crmonie commence a 6h du matin et que c'est a 1h de la ville et que fallait se rveiller avant 5h On part pendant la nuit noir et j'ai appris que des gens se lve a 4h du matin travailler pauvre eux Je pars avec Lee et Milly la chinoise qui nous a invit. C'est http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Shijiazhuang/blog-227429.html Commentaire sur le clavier JE PARTAGE L'ORDI AVC DES ANGLOPHONE je ne peux pas le changer deuh je sais comment Alexandre mais merci pour le petit mot Tu sais que tu es vraiment mignion .... de loin. Comprend pas pourquoi a cote de moi tu fais chier mais en chine tu es toute cute PBon la je suis de retour dans la ville de Shijiazhuang oui la c'est bien ecritet je vis avec Lee Un http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Shijiazhuang/blog-227427.html Lol non je blagues PJe vais mieux presentment oui j'ai deprime mais j'ai pas pleure pour sa XD ceci est un bonhomme qui delire sourit XD delireJ'essaie ailleur une autre fois sinon je peux aussi faire du mibenevolat mitravail dans des ecole plus pauvre. Salaire moins bon mais c'est tellement pas cher que sa parait pas.Je vais aussi regarder pour passer le nouvel an chinois dans une famil http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Shijiazhuang/blog-227425.html Je vais tre honnte avec vous ici je ne reste pas a mon cole. Enfin a cette cole.Aujourd'hui je viens d'tre renvoyer.Je manque d'exprience cela parait dans mes cours qui sont un peu discontinue. J'ai un accent franais qui donne en confusion au enfant ils n'aiment pas sa.Ils ont une rputation qui demande des personnes avec de l'exprience. Si j'aurais t capable de le changer genre si http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/blog-227422.html J'ai 3 classe de 3 levels pour le moment.EL pour English Learner aka ILS SAVENT RIENHF Y pour High Fligher Young aka PAREIL A ELTB pour Trail Blaster ou Teenager Bastard aka EWWW UN GARS SA PUE Resumer EL Classe de 1h ou j'ai perdu 15 minutes avec ceux qui pleurent ceux qui veulent pas etre la et ceux qui comprennent pas pourquoi. Maman je comprends ta souffrance de garder des enfants.Ensuit http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/blog-227420.html Bonjour a tousToujours pas de photo grrrrr mais j'en prends. Je suis toujours dans le meme appart debile qui deviendras bientot autre chose.J'ai passe ma semaine a regarder les autre enseigner et ce matin du 20 janviers j'ai assiste un autre professeur qui etait malade.C'etait traumatisant O.o Mais je vais etre capable demain je fais mes cours tout seul avec MA classe de petit nouveau Je d http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/blog-227417.html ChengDeVue que Chris avait un Lundi de off et moi pas de classe ce WeekEnd Test pour lrsquoecole on est partit vpour ChengDe pour la fin de semaine regarder des temples et visiter un des camps de chasses de lrsquoempereur Qing. Nous sommes partit le 26 en aprsmidi et somme arrive en soiree a ChengDe. Nous n'avions pas de chambre mais heureusement un des scouts d'un hotle nous a diriger v http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Chengde/blog-226958.html Earlier on in the year I wrote that I was going to do a TEFL course and then become a teacher in Asia.... Well..... here I am in China with a TEFL diploma and a year contract with a large language schoolAfter my arrival on Beijing airport I was picked up and driven to Qinhuangdao a city on the eastcoast accross from North Korea so to say. Here I have spend my first night in a chinese restaur http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/blog-221157.html HalloweenKnowing that we were going to miss Halloween the best holiday of the year we decided to bring the ghosts and goblins to China. All week in class we explained halloween traditions told ghost stories and scared our kids. We also invited them to a haunted house we were making at the school. We planned and decorated all week and invited all of the foreign teachers from around the Shiz http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Shijiazhuang/blog-218698.html A couple of weeks ago we rode the fast train to Beijing. After our first train experience this was a dream. We had nice seats with lots of leg room and it was only two hours long We didn't have hostel reservations so we ended up following a rep from one of the hostels down one of the hutong alleys. A hutong is a back street that is home to a million shopsrestaurantsand kiosks. China is t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Shijiazhuang/blog-218680.html Everyone knows that teachers live for the summer. Well this summer was a little hectic for the two of us what with packing up our lives and moving to China. Then we started work August 4th and poof what happened to the chance to relax and recover from 20062007Starting work August 4th was actually a relief after such a crazy July but I can't deny as September slipped by I was ever so relie http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Chengde/blog-209697.html Word of the day Hohhot where I went on holiday for MidAutumn Festival the capital of Inner Mongolia pronounced Hoe huh hot eh Fifteen hours on a train wouldn't be so bad but when you add 50 people in the aisle watching you horribly smelly squatties no leg room things falling from the luggage rack annoying cart ladies yelling about pijioubijiou and the checkout lady at the grocery s http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Shijiazhuang/blog-209466.html Hi EveryoneSo sorry it has taken me awhile to update again. I have been pretty busy with classes and people. I'm also trying to learn chinese but the lessons have yet to propel me past the hello how are you fine and you stage of conversation. Though I guess you have to start somewhere Chinese is difficult to learn even with the triedandtrue technique of language submersion. Words have http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Shijiazhuang/blog-206898.html Hello My last entry was all about all my favorite things that have happened in China. The zoo two weeks ago was the number one favorite. We all met downtown and took the bus first time It wasn't as bad as expected for about a half hour to the outskirts of Shijiazhuang. Right off the bus we ran into a camel. A couple had a dejected looking camel roped up outside of the zoo. Us being the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Shijiazhuang/blog-206284.html Salut a tous de la grande ville de BaoDingApres avoir recue les cris de distresse de ma mere D je vais expliquer mon absence du monde de l'internet pour un moment ....Ce mois si etait les inscriptions dans JEI alors j'ai du donner des classes Demo dans des ecoles ainsi que dans les bureau. J'ai enfin unofficiellement mon bureau et un fan clubJ'ai eu beaucoup de preparation a faire et de mat http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/BaoDing/blog-204577.html You can begin to can call where you live home when you have a pet. Today Clare Lindsey Jake and I went to the pet market downtown and bought baby turtles In the US when we wanted a turtle they told us the had to be about 6 inches across anything smaller was illegal...not in China. Our turtles are so tiny and cute probably about the size of a silver dollar. We haven't given them names y http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hebei/Shijiazhuang/blog-201441.html