My Life in China

class photos

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the assistant on our floor (ai Yi)

my sunburt roommate

yamika cooking indian food for me

monk on th train

trip to shenyang

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grandma and dad

grandma apx 4ft3in and laughs like jabba the hut

mom and dad

mom and her tiny chinese car

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here me, JiA (korean),Steph (german), and max(german) watch a speech contest

this is heather (korean) one of the smartest people i've ever met

here is the international gardens outside shenyang

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heres a pic of the korean sandwich place

here todd helps out some construction

here are yamikas children who i hang out with sometimes

misc.

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Primetime, i'm always thinking about you buddy

the gun is bigger than the kid and i don't see any parents

this is for you shirk, lance in china...USA...USA

class photos

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South African Classmates

me, my listening teacher, and thomas (german)

me and yang laoshi (my basic chinese teacher)

My listening class

Volleyball champions

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our team/teachers and classes (the winning team)

laoshi gives me instruction

jiao you! building team spirit

our team

The Great Wall

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to Beijing!!!

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Making friends on the train

Just because its under constructin doesn't mean we can't use our imaginations and admire its beauty

The forbiden city

Tiananmen square with everyones hero (joke) "Mao Zedong"

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Sing a new Song

Everyone love Americans

Tress everywhere in Nanjing

Nanjing

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This is taken the "Rape of Nanjing" Memorial were 300,000 unarmed chinese were mutilated by the Japanese before the 2nd World War

Nanjing's is the largest "walled" city in the World

Here we tread atop the 40 foot city wall to avoid an entrance fee to the next tourist site.

Nanjing

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Here is another Pakoda

hail to the cheif. Suzhou is very famous for its silk. Here we are at the Suzhou silk factory.

There is just a lot of people in China.

Rock and Roll

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A little rock garden action

In china, you don't have to memorials or parks, you can touch/ play on anything.

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In suzhou were the most beautiful gardens i have ever seen. So well maintained.

The Venice of China

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Suzhou is known as one of China's most beautiful cities. It has canals running through it like Venice. I practiced my Chinese and asked the rower if I could have a try, it was very difficult, but todd and i both enjoyed rowing.

Here is a Pakoda in Suzhou. Beside it is a monestary.

This is beside the pakoda, Here we hung out with some buddhist women. I could not understand their accents at all. But, they did give me candy and taught me a prayer.

The locals live along the canals, sometimes while boating through we saw them chilling along the water

to Suzhou

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here is a chinese Train Staion. It is crowded and hot.

Here we were just eating at restaurant and a dog walked in
We were walking by this van one night and as we approached it they rolled up the windows and locked the doors. Oh how the roles reverse.

Here is two old men walking through Suzhou. The Grandpa Dill and Anthony Spinace, if you will.

it belongs in a museum

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shanghai shot

heres some chinese bells from about 1000BC.

China is obviously famous for their "china." They are very skilled with the ceramics. Here is a ceramic "pillow" from more ancient times.

Here is a suit made of salmon. yes, the fish.

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One of the tallest building in the world, we got to go up and have a look at Shanghai.

Who doesn't love weddings. This will be a great picture for the bride and groom to look at during all there aniversaries.

Todd's a proud athiest, so I got his picture in front of the Cathedral.

This is a technique of making noodles. It is fresh uncooked dough and the chef is slicing off noodles very quickly into the boiling water. It was delicious.

at night

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we went on boat ride at night through the city. The water seperates pudong. Pudong , which is what this photo is showing, has all been built since 1996.

Pudong.

Building huge cities in 10 years takes a lot of work. I am told that Shanghai and its surrounding area has more cranes than all of north america combined. There is construction everywhere.

We packed on this little tug boat in the morning to cross into Pudong.

More Shanghai

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Where's lance?
Theres a lot of bikes in china, a lot of bikes!!!

In a buddhist Monestary. Buddha buddha buddha

Riding on boats through Shanghai can be fun and exciting :)

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savage?

xiuxi

Giant world

We're not in Dalian anymore

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This is Shanghai

Tuppins a day

Outside a musuem

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here is a small side market on the side of the street

many of the grocery stores are 2 stories so there is inclined escalators you ride with your cart

here you catch your own fish in a net

the obvious freshness, the cart is blocking the view of the eel.

high tea

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the epcot center?

here is 2/3 of my intro to chinese class at the hilton hotel having high tea (yes i'm the guy that ruined the picture)

pingpang qiu! i'm teaching the japanese who's boss

interesting Pictures

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Here is a small chinese child

This is an interesting building

Here is a more traditional chinese building

Here is my roommate loving life.

Sight Seeing

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here is some tiger statues and Tiger Beach, about a 20 minute bus ride from my dorm

Here is the Sea.

This is my room on Laundry day. We don't have dryers, everything must be hung.

Here is some interesting architecture.

here are some pictures from my campus

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Taking Cribbage to China!!
This is a secret cafeteria on the chinese side of campus. It is delicious and about $.40 a meal

Here is the Chef posing for me at the Chinese Cafeteria. There is rows of stuff with prices listed and you pick them out (tofu, pork, tomato, chicken, lettuce, mushroom, eggs, etc) and put them is your bowl, then he adds rice and fries it up.

This is the track next to my dorm.

Here is the basketball courts on campus. Here being white means your from the West, and so they think being white = good at basketball, a slight cultural difference.

this is for drew

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I was just walking around campus and saw this kid playing basketball with a "WESTPOINT" sweatshirt. This has been the only U.S. university i have seen represented on Chinese clothing. All Right DREW!!!

action.

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here is my roommate - Roman, he looks a little too russian in this one. This photo is in our auditorium/gymnasium/ping pong room, music room.

Here is another great toilet picture. Buns of steel!

Here is some of my tongxue 同学 (classmates) interacting with a Dalian memorial.

more cooking

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This is me smashing some Cucumbers

Todd showing off the first fish he ever gutted

3 generations of Rens

Cookng at Mr Ren's

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Here we are eating dinner at friend of our program director's (justin king) house.
In the yellow is Todd, he is from San Francisco and goes to Juniata College in PA, he has been at Dalian univerity for 7 months now and plans to stay all next year. His Chinese is good from what I can tell and getting better.

Above is Mrs. Ren

This is me, holding my newest favorite spice...MSG!!!

Here is us getting ready to eat...Todd, Justin (my program director), and Sunny (his girlfriend)

If you really like Dalian here some more pics of it

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Under Contrucion: Dalian and many cranes all over as building are constantly shooting up

Dalian City: Zhong Shan Sqare

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more dalian, Victory Square

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This is a shopping plazza, one of the many squares in the city

More Dalian, olymic square

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This is just a cool building

This is an electronic store beside olympic square. It is all underground and is two floors. It is gigantic, I estimate it to be 1 square mile per floor.

This is where the Dalian Soccer team plays, they are returning National Champions!

Here is an open field accross from the stadium

Dalian City Shots

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These are pictures from the view of my city (Dalian) from a hill near my school

This is a statue outside a store, standing beside it is my friend Vadim from Ohio

First impressions

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First, this is what our toilets look like, its not easy.

This is my Russian Roomate

This is a view of Dalian from the dorm.

This is a view from the other side of the dorm

welcome.

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Hello! i'm in china from march 7th to july 10th. Please feel free to enjoy the experience with me by navigating and interacting with this site.