Destination: China

Teaching

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 | By arendse_worldnomad | Views [545]

I'm beginning to understand why teaching is often described as being the best and the worst job in the world. When a lesson goes well, you can be sure to walk out of the classroom happily and be bright and satisfied for the rest of the day. If a lesson goes ... Read more >

National Holiday (Finally)

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 | By godohell | Views [910] | Comments [1]

Finally, I have the time (and motivation) to write the entry on National Holiday. I actually really don't have much motivation other than I am super bored, I don't feel like studying, I can't register for winter classes yet, and I'm a little upset (will ... Read more >

Tags: beijing, boys are fucking stupid, im a lazy bastard, lennon bar, national holiday, qindao, qufu, taishan, yantai

I swear I am not 5 anymore

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 | By joshuapatterson23 | Views [748] | Comments [10]

Well as embarrassing as this story will be it can't be worse than Sammie Cassel in Peru. Since Dan J. is the only one that knows what that is a reference to, he is the only one who knows where this story is going. So yesterday was Sunday, I was forced ... Read more >

Guilin

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 | By gandd | Views [405]

So since there was nothing to do yesterday at work i decided to jump on the bus with a group that were heading to Shanghi and got off at Guilin. I haven't spent any time in our main city as it takes about 1 1/2 hours to get there and always seems like ... Read more >

If I had to choose, I'd be a citizen of ProcrastiNation

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 | By joshuapatterson23 | Views [854]

If you hadn't already guessed from the title I should be doing something important right now, but I just not to. What am I supposed to be doing? Well I will tell you, I should be cleaning my apartment. Not that kind of cleaning I have a cleaning lady ... Read more >

Porcelain!

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 | By arendse_worldnomad | Views [694]

Jingdezhen is the porcelain capital of China. Pottery has been made here for over 1700 years. As mentioned before, many of the street lamps and traffic lights are made entirely out of china, and there are whole streets with nothing but china shops. At ... Read more >

Always Good

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 | By gandd | Views [431]

So as I sit here at the base wondering what to do today. Dion is out hiking in the middle of no where and enjoying the peace and quiet of it all. He had a 12hr train ride followed by a 4 hours bumpy bus ride to get where he is though. All in a days ... Read more >

Gallery: Kayaking the Li River

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 | By gandd | Photo Gallery

Can you make that autograph out to taoBao, little "t" big "B"

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 | By joshuapatterson23 | Views [770] | Comments [3]

For those of you that don't understand the title to today's post you need to watch more "Futerama". In America you have eBay, in China we have tao bao. In your collective faces America. We got our own website were people can auction of stuff ... Read more >

Gallery: Xi'an and Lanzhou

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 | By arendse_worldnomad | Photo Gallery

National Day holidays: Lanzhou and Xi'an

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 | By arendse_worldnomad | Views [1830]

The week after Xinyu we left for our weeks language course in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province. We met up with the Xinyu boys and set off on a sufficiently unpleasant 32 hour train journey in a train that was later to be referred to as a 'soviet ... Read more >

On The Right Track

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 | By ryanandjo | Views [3233] | Comments [3]

At last we do a long overnight train journey in China...Hong Kong to Shanghai in 19 hours. We decided on the hard sleeper option rather than soft sleeper, the difference being there are 6 beds per cabin rather than 4, a ... Read more >

Tags: beijing, forbidden city, great wall, nanjing, olympics, shanghai, summer palace, tiananmen square

I am on a Train!!

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 | By joshuapatterson23 | Views [558] | Comments [3] | Video

Well my Internet decided to crap out on me. So I hope this will actually work and that I got this up in time for your lunch Casey.

Gallery: Qingdao, Taishan, Qufu

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 | By godohell | Photo Gallery

WOO! I'm back!

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 | By godohell | Views [671]

So National Holiday had its ups and downs. But we're back and safe and I am oh so happy to shower in a place that forty other people haven't showered in already. I'll fill you all in on all of the details later, but right now I'll give you all just ... Read more >

Tags: clean shower, i would rather be sleeping, national holiday