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The bus to Shangri-La
THE BUS TO SHANGRI-LA February 2006 For the last couple of months, I’ve been tutoring a little Japanese girl named Marin. She lives with her parents in the Shangri-La Residences, adjacent to the ritzy Shangri-La Hotel. Marin’s father is working in China for a few years, so Marin attends 4th grade at the Canadian international …
BEIJING
BEIJING October 2005 WELCOME TO BEIJING, Population 15 millionWe arrived in Beijing at daybreak on National Day. We would be staying in Beijing for six nights and planned to see all the attractions that self respecting tourists should see. My parents and Zac and I had left Dalian around 8:30 the night before and spent …
Dalian Coast
DALIAN’S COASTAL AREAS
FISH FACTORY
FISH FILLET FACTORY FUN February 2006 One of the things I knew about China before I came here was that it had lots of factories. “Outsourcing” was often the scapegoat for unemployment in America, and China, with its vast supply of cheap labor, was inevitably mentioned as one of the culprits. I had imagined China …
THE END
THE END March 2006 It used to really bother me that I only had one life. But now I realize that in a way, living in foreign countries is pretty close to having different lives. Our life in Namibia was totally different from our previous life as students in the U.S.A. Our life here in …
Vietnam Travels
Vietnam April 18-30, 2006 If I had to sum up Vietnam in one long run-on sentence, I would say this: Vietnam is a wonderful, blue-skied, sandy country full of palm trees, brilliant green rice fields, delicious food, and friendly people who zip around on sexy motor bikes wearing flip-flops and face masks. And it’s cheap. …
Laos Travel
Laos May 10-16, 2006 Boat to Luang Prabang Luang Prabang Vang Vieng Vientiene
China Travels
China 2005-2006 Beijing The Great Wall Dandong Shanghai Hangzhou Train to Yichang Three Gorges Dam Yangtze River Chongqing Yangshuo
Thailand Travels
Thailand May 5-10 & 18-19, 2006 Bangkok Chiang Mai Ko Tao Island
Singapore Travels
Singapore June 6 – 8, 2006 After a much better journey than our previous train ride, we arrived in Singapore around 1 pm (although our projected arrival time had been 10am). We’d heard such good things about how organized and convenient Singapore was that we were surprised to find ourselves virtually stranded at the train …
