As if it wasn’t crazy enough to travel north to a city as far north as Harbin, which has temperatures regularly in the -10s, I took Garth and Ann even further north to a place called Mingshui County, which is in the jurisdiction of Suihua City. Don’t worry, if you’ve never heard of Mingshui County, you’re not really missing out on much, Wikipedia doesn’t know much either. Continue reading
After our trip to Beijing, we decided to go visit Harbin, also known as the “Ice City”. The train itself was godawful, which I’ll explain in the post below, but the time we had in Harbin was amazing. And fortunately, we had the help of a friend get us through Harbin and onto our next destination, Mingshui County. Continue reading
About a week after final exams ended, I took my first train to the capital city of Beijing. It’s not a city I haven’t been to, but I still wanted to go because it had been a while, and it’s about halfway to where I really wanted to go. Plus, I was going to pick up my friend Garth, who was flying here to see me and visit the great wall. Continue reading
So, it’s been a little while since I posted. Part of that is because of the two trips I took during the spring festival, and part of that is because the new semester has started. But most of it is because my blog was temporarily disabled, because a bot thought my blog was full of advertising links.
Yes, I’ve recently put some links for books up on my Books & Movies page, but they’re not there primarily for advertising. Rather, they are there so I can show the books I’ve read, keep track of them (myself), and if anyone is interested in buying, they can go through that page to purchase them. (If you haven’t seen it yet, don’t worry… there’s only like 2 or 3 books up there so far).
I hope in the future I can provide more details! Beginning with stories from my travels. Keep an eye out for those posts!
Starting tomorrow, I will be taking my first trip of the Spring Festival holiday. Fortunately, it’s also a trip that will help me accomplish my first resolution of 2012. One of my students says that she wants to visit friends in Luoyang city. Although it’s not her hometown, I do have a few students that live there, so maybe I can call them and see about meeting them there. Continue reading
On Friday, when we were out picking up train tickets for myself and Adam’s travel group to Beijing, we looked out the glass door and saw something that we don’t encounter every day. On one side of the south gate, a line of people were standing and blocking cars from leaving the campus. On the other side of that same gate, people were unfurling a banner. A protest was about to take place. Continue reading
Towards the end of last year, a new large supermarket opened at the intersection of Freedom Rd. and Liberation Rd. (quite ironic names, don’t you think?) The store is named RT-Mart, or 大润发 (Dà Rùn Fā) in Chinese. The store has three floors plus an underground parking deck for those families who are wealthy enough to own private cars. For those who aren’t, the store also offers a bus service to pick people up from all over the city. Continue reading
