Dec 12, 2009 Nocturnal Visitors and other strange things. While we foreigners might think life in China is often exotic and strange, just stop for a moment and imagine what the Chinese must think of us.
Dec 5, 2009 Da Xiong Mao Ji Di : Sichuan Province Panda Reserve Giant pandas are more endangered than ever since the 2008 Sichuan earthquake... 23 percent of the pandas' habitat in the study area was destroyed, and fragmentation of the remaining habitat could hinder panda reproduction.
Aug 21, 2009 Teaching Life: EET Baotou Inner Mongolia What is lovely with the kids is the way they like to play with the hair on my arms, or hold my hand, or lean on me during class. It has really begun to make me homesick for my own kids and grandkids. That is a first! I have never felt homesick before!
Aug 13, 2009 Who is Luo Laoshi and What does he Think? Many people in Baotou have asked who Luo Laoshi is, and how his teaching is going to be any better than other foreign teacher's teaching or other private language school's teaching. To answer such questions, the following article was written for the information of residents of Baotou in Inner Mongolia.
Aug 5, 2009 Angler's Tale and a Swimming Kangaroo As for the kangaroo ..... we watched as it went for a swim from one side to the other, at a narrow point that was only perhaps 50 meters wide. It could have walked around, but it just went for a swim, and then came back again.
Jul 9, 2009 Working in Baotou Inner Mongolia Oh what a tangled web we weave we first we receive anything from anyone in China. As a Chinese proverb says: 'There's no free lunch in China!'
Jun 18, 2009 Farewell YanCheng - Hello Baotou! When I was approached by EET (Easy English Training) to help them set up new 'Private School' English Teaching branches in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, I found it impossible to refuse.
Jun 7, 2009 What I love About China. What I love about this country is that you have a story to tell everytime you set foot out of your room.
May 23, 2009 Inside Tiger Hill Suzhou I bought quite a few movies, including Hugh Jackman's 'Wolverine' Origins movie. That turned out to be a blast actually. The pirates had knocked it off before all the computer graphics were finished. There were these great fight scenes in front of white screens with drawings all over them, and of course the special effects tricks had not yet been edited out
May 3, 2009 Inside HanShan Temple Complex Suzhou This particular photograph may not be that stunning, but I like it because I just love cultural relics. The one in the foreground dates back to within just a few years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, whilst the white stele behind it dates back (from memory) to the Song or Tang Dynasty.
May 2, 2009 May Day 2009 YanDu Park Yancheng China I found myself running backwards whilst videoing the horde of students pursuing me. I guess in all, it took about 30 minutes to get free of the little tykes.
Apr 14, 2009 Songzhuang Art Village - Beijing On our way there, she explained us that the 798 Area has now become too expensive and chaotic for artists, so they decided to move somewhere else and picked this less inhabited area.
Apr 23, 2009 Why I Love Living in China If you happen to be a Chinese or Foreign Boss on the East Coast of China looking to hire someone who really can communicate with foreigners in normative English, then Jerry is your man.
Feb 26, 2009 Life is not Easy for Chinese University Graduates A student wrote the other week: 'There were so many people in the room that I couldn't bear it, so I had quick intercourse with everyone and left.'
Jan 21, 2009 "Jiao Liu" : The Making of a Star. Life in China has it's ups and downs, and they are usually extreme.
Jan 17, 2009 Chinese Countryside: Wuxi This file merely contains some photographs of the countryside. Taken from within a bus, they nevertheless provide some scenic shots.
Jan 4, 2009 Christmas Party Yan Fu Hotel Yancheng Jiangsu No matter what people may say, it's not easy sticking out like a sore thumb for every passerby to stare and gawk at, and to make comments about. So you just have to go with the flow and entertain the troops sometimes. Speaking of which, get a load of what is written on the back of this lady's shirt.
R.P.BenDedek is from Brisbane Australia and is the author of 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' at http://www.kingscalendar.com His academic articles set forth Apologetics for and results of his discovery of an "artificial chronological scheme" running through the Bible, Josephus, the Damascus Documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Seder Olam Rabbah.
He writes photographic 'Stories from China' and social editorial commentaries, both at KingsCalendar, and as a contributing newspaper columnist. He currently teaches Conversational English in China and in addition to his English Lessons at KingsCalendar, he has created specific sites for Students of English.
