our Thanksgiving Day dinner:
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| Not a turkey, but this duck will have to do |
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| How about some stewed beef? |
Zaijian
Friday, November 26, 2010
Happy Turkey Day!
Nimen Hao!
our Thanksgiving Day dinner:
More posts to come...
Zaijian
our Thanksgiving Day dinner:
Zaijian
Thursday, November 18, 2010
The sites around Luoyang - New Post 1 of 2
Nimen Hao!
Zaijian
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| WHERE'RE MY PANTS!!! |
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| Longmen Grottoes boast over 2,400 Buddha caves carved over 8 Dynasties |
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| A victim of the Cultural Revolution, students came a broke the heads off of some of the many buddhas |
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| Some caves are larger than others, bu tall have (or had) a buddha in it |
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| It really is amazing to see these hand made caves |
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| Now that is one serene ... |
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| These 4 cm Buddhas are only a few of the 4000 in this 1 cave |
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| Lotus Cave |
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| Dancing Buddhas at the Longmen Grottos |
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| Hitching a ride |
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| Tower of Kaifung |
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| The kids love the costumes |
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| 4 lovely ladies at Halloween |
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| Cheap baby sitter... |
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| Hard to get confused on what to do here... |
Shaolin... the birthplace of David Carradine (as I'm sure you all already knew) ... was awesome! This dude threw a pin through a piece of 1/8 inch glass... eventually.
Zaijian
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Karaoke!!! - New Post 2 of 2
Nimen Hao,
Three nights of Karaoke... and yes I actually sang not just chanted or "Shatner-d"...
Karaoke is a strange part of the culture here, some folks just hangout, some folks drink really, REALLY hard, and others just love to sing. I never really enjoyed Karaoke, until now...
Zaijian
Three nights of Karaoke... and yes I actually sang not just chanted or "Shatner-d"...
Karaoke is a strange part of the culture here, some folks just hangout, some folks drink really, REALLY hard, and others just love to sing. I never really enjoyed Karaoke, until now...
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| Han warming up for all of us. |
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| Husband and Wife Duet... so sweet... |
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| Teaching the Macarena... not actually sure why |
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| Who's that handsome, untalented, singer? |
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| It's not really fair to Karaoke with the music teacher |
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| Bless those rains down in Africa! |
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| Andy, Matthew, and Ling-Ling feeling the groove! |
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| Day 2 - Sing it Brandy! |
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| Ahhhh... Mr. Zhai, the center of attention again |
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| Lucky man, Matthew, lucky man |
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| Andy showing us how it's done! |
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| Apparently our waitress didn't know which direction to point the camera... language barrier... |
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| Han is unimpressed, so now he's farming online. |
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| Get down with your bad-selves... |
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| Sing it Jing... even if the song is from China's version of Barny |
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| "Hey Jude" never sounded so good! |
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| Han's Chicken dance! |
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| Matthew's really "feeling the music" now... |
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| The Chinese Polka! |
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| Awwww so sweet |
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| ANDY!!!! |
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
A Weekend on Ruyang and Ruzhou
Nimen Hao!
So last weekend we (the junior 3 teachers and the foreigners) Traveled to Ruyang and Ruzhou, near by cities in Henan province. The general trip was a reward for the J3 teachers for such a great job so far. We went to these two cities in order to see two of the older temples in Henan. Below you will see an enjoyable rendition of our trip
Lunch:
After Lunch we went to a temple, museum, amusement park, tourist trap... China style...
The last temple wasn't very far form the tourist trap... so we walked through the Forest of Wind Park (which was very foresty, but not very windy)...
Next time: KARAOKE!
Zaijian
So last weekend we (the junior 3 teachers and the foreigners) Traveled to Ruyang and Ruzhou, near by cities in Henan province. The general trip was a reward for the J3 teachers for such a great job so far. We went to these two cities in order to see two of the older temples in Henan. Below you will see an enjoyable rendition of our trip
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| Yum Chicken feet... |
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| Baijiu with the Brewmaster in Ruyang |
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| Principal Bai showing us his moves |
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| The children around the Temple, They were very happy to get their pictures taken |
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| Our Monk Tour Guide... all in Chinese so... it's really old I guess |
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| A 1000 year old lucky turtle... Now I'll be rich |
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| Split pants... |
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| Brandy and Mr. Zhai posing on the "Ticklish Tree" |
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| Karaoke in teh Bus While waiting for the rest of the group |
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| I never said it was good Karaoke... |
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| Our cave room at the restaurant for lunch |
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| Actually a cave... |
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| The food was... interesting... I ate badger... and it was not good... |
After Lunch we went to a temple, museum, amusement park, tourist trap... China style...
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| The upside-down temple of the upside-down well |
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| The mysterious slope... Going up is easy... down is hard... MYSTERIOUS! |
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| Brandy trying to bike up down hill |
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| OH MY! Kim is upside-down |
The last temple wasn't very far form the tourist trap... so we walked through the Forest of Wind Park (which was very foresty, but not very windy)...
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| The gate to the Temple in the Forest of Wind |
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| A Pagoda Forest, these are the tombs of monks |
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| ... ... Walk this way?... ... |
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| Parts of this temple are close to 1500 years old... insane |
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| An Incense burner that is older that our nation... but 800 years... |
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| Stairway to the monks quarters |
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| The Bamboo is slowly overtaking the unused parts of the Temple |
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| This water boast the ability to balance all chemicals in your body... especially your levels of moss intake... |
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| The dragons mouth leads to this meditation room |
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| That is going to be one mossy kid |
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| 108 step on "The path of Trouble-Removing" |
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| These temple dogs have the life |
Zaijian
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