http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guangdong/Zhongshan/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Guangdong , Zhongshan en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:53:59 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:53:59 UTC Hi everyoneFirst of all BIG BIG apologies for not keeping this up to date I do have an excuse or two.1. Working overtime shortstaffed and teaching kindy so hours of prep. GRRR2. My nice shiny new laptop broke It had to get sent away to Hong Kong so I have been laptopless for 2 months. It is back now and working fine fingers crossed touch wood.So I am on my lunch break just now but I http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangdong/Zhongshan/blog-335984.html Hi EveryoneSorry it has been so longI finally have internet access in my flat. Communication here is not the easiest phones work in the local area so while I am here please contact me by email. When I make visits to Hong Kong I will have my mobile with the Hong Kong number very confusing I know so it is probably best if you just email meWell life here is Zhongshan is interesting. The s http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangdong/Zhongshan/blog-299088.html HI EveryoneI'm still at home in Scotland but I only have 10 days left here I leave on the 22nd May. I am going to spend around a month in Hong Kong and then I'm going to teach English in Zongshan for a year I think.It's all exciting and I have quite a bit to do before I go including sorting out all the documents for the complicated visa.Anyway I thought this would be a good and easy way to keep http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangdong/Zhongshan/blog-275047.html Kia ora allI've been meaning to write a group email for some considerable time now. I am in Zhongshan city in China if you didn't know and I am loving every moment of it. I left on February 18 to arrive in Hong Kong city where I stayed a night before making my way to this small city of four million. Hong kong's cool as. Lots of people and foreigners and lights. I'm sure I'll go there some more http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangdong/Zhongshan/blog-253230.html Ahh Yuletide approaches Lessons have slackened off a little and we are left with a Christmas themed party for all the schools' students bringing festive cheer to the office. In China Xmas day is not a public holiday but we are looking forward to a slap up meal on the day at a fellow teacher's placemmmh The days till we leave China are ticking down about 5 weeks left now we hope to head in http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangdong/Zhongshan/blog-227195.html StevenZhongshan gets a brief mention in the LP summing up not a place to divert travellers for very long but we have called it home now for 4 months now. We've thrown ourselves into some learning and cultural pursuits. We started going to a Kungfu class a while back. This is an extract from my diary shortly after starting Oct 29th 2007'We've just got back from our second lesson kungfu le http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangdong/Zhongshan/blog-217846.html We just completed a visa run across the Chinese border at Macau. This time we only stopped for a couple of hours enough to see the some of Macau's casinos and to spot the sea. Macau has 95 Chinese inhabitants 2 Portuguese and 3 Macanese a mix of both. I spent much of the short trip trying to spot the Macanese part of society without success or maybe I saw them and didn't know it. Another http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangdong/Zhongshan/blog-199436.html StevenSo time is flying We're in the office on a Saturday thought we'd add an entry here so you you know that we remain as teachers. We've got more classes now of all levels it's a good challenge. We both celebrated birthdays in August. We have found a cool bar here with a live band and friendly atmosphere the whole place sang Happy Birthday to us on each of our birthdays strange as the http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangdong/Zhongshan/blog-197869.html This weekend gone we decided to venture into Zhongshan and nose around the parks. What we found has changed my opinion of our home. Zhongshan really does have real life beyond the commerce and shopping. I was starting to think that all this place had to offer was endless shopping 'malls' Zhongshan is situated in the delta of the Pearl River so there have been foreign influences here for some t http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangdong/Zhongshan/blog-189056.html Steven Hello there We are now in Guangdong province. Our plan to travel strictly overland has been briefly interupted by a China East airways flight from Kunming Yunnan to Guanzhou used to be Canton. This was on Sunday. We were flown here to start teaching English. We are just getting settled in and hope to stay at least until October if not beyond. I think that with overland travel you ex http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangdong/Zhongshan/blog-183296.html HARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRLO allonly 3 more days to go and ill be in beijing. cant wait leaving here at 5 on mon morningkinda nervous dont think itll turn out as good as i think it willahh wells we'll see how it goes. hopefully my chinese will end up better than it is now. i can barely talk to mum right now. and all those chinese speakers know how pitiful my chinese is...aiiitodays events... more s http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangdong/Zhongshan/blog-109357.html hey ho alltoday was the best day of my 3 days here so far. woke up went for a run well that was the shit part actaully. our city is the birth city of sun yat sen dude who got rid of the imperialists and put in a democracy well sorta democracy then he got kicked out and went to taiwan. hahah anwyay we got this park dedicated to him and theres hundreds of stairs which i climbed albeit slowly http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangdong/Zhongshan/blog-109091.html Mmmm more shopping today HOWEVER got something useful...ta da...got a cameraso yes will post many more photos of my gma and hopefully some of this delightful placefound this amazing site where you can like resize all these photos at once www.imageresizer.com no more photoshopping individ photos man they should pay me for this publicityman this is so sad ive been posting every night and thi http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangdong/Zhongshan/blog-108902.html Hey allArrived yesterday in my hometown of zhong shan. Just to give you some idea of what this place is like lonely planet guide recommends you stay here for a max 2 hours. hahahah i normally spend 2 months here. theres a map of the place and my journey so far in the map linkit was weird though cause when i got here i got bad culture shock as defined by Korstenski hahhah damn cross cultural and http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guangdong/Zhongshan/blog-108719.html