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Hello from China . This is my first post despite my presence in China for almost a week as I had very limited access to the Internet. I arrived last Friday the 26th, and I have had a shockingly busy time. The pictures to the left of of the lovely view from my hotel room in Xiamen. I arrived...

permalink written by  mflamoe on July 1, 2009 from Xiamen, China
from the travel blog: Xiamen



La Chine, tout un choc...culturel

Bonjour tous! Donc, la derniere fois qui nous avons ecrit sur le blog, nous etions dans la magnifique ville de Sapa au Vietnam! Je pense que, depuis le debut du voyage, c’est vraiment notre coup de coeur ! Le lendemain de notre excursion au marcher, nous nous sommes louer une moto...

permalink written by  Guiless on July 1, 2009 from Kunming, China
from the travel blog: Asie du Sud Est par Isa et Guillaume



Beijing?

Well, when I started the blog, I wanted it to be very positive about China. I think many people write culture shock blogs and they are not fair to the country they visit. I wanted to be different. I wanted to point out some fun differences and share some cultural stuff. I wanted our son to read...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on June 29, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher



xian travel

Our guide will pick you up at the airport or in the hotel where you stay. Visit Shaanxi Provincial History Museum and the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. In the evening, you will go to the Tang Dynasty Palace to enjoy the dumpling banquet and the Tang Dynasty Culture Show. Accommodation: Xian Sheraton...

permalink written by  chinatravelto on June 29, 2009 from Xianyang, China
from the travel blog: xian travel in china



The wedding.

The ayi's son fell in love and now will live happily ever after. We attended the wedding on our lunch hour from teaching Saturaday classes. The lunar calandar has double May this month. And this was an especially lucky day because it was dragon boat day again, although the dragon festival was...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on June 27, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher



Chinese kindergarten

Princess has been going to Chinese kindergarten since September. It is very different from US. When she enrolled, the head of foriegn affairs handled everything for us. So we just paid and dropped her off the next day. The first week she came home speaking all these Russian sounding words. We...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on June 26, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: carseat tourist's Travel Blog



Double Rainbow

Last night, I was delivering food to my wife @6pm local time and it was sunny but sprinkling. I looked around for a rainbow and sure enough there was one, or two in fact. We have been in China 3 years and I have only seen three rainbows here. I have seen all three in the past two days. I...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on June 25, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher



One step closer

We bought the tickets to Anhui today!!!! As always it was not as easy as going to Expedia and few clicks you're done. The chinese airlines don't take foriegn credit cards online. So, our previous ticket purchases had worked out that we found the rate we wanted and then went to a travel agent...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on June 24, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: carseat tourist's Travel Blog



The coal trucks

In America, there seems to be this whole substainability movement. People are trying to get back in touch with their food sources. Buy local. It's great. I'm all for it. We like to be in touch with everything. We are a hands on kind of family. We leased a vineyard and berry patch for a year, the...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on June 23, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher



Beijing Baby

Beijing Baby!!! We got another summer camp lined up, a nice one I think. We will start our summer gigs in Beijing now. We'll be teaching chinese English teachers. I like teaching teachers! They want to be there, they speak English. I teach one class of English teachers now and I really like...

permalink written by  carseat tourist on June 22, 2009 from Harbin, China
from the travel blog: Life in Harbin as an American English Teacher



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