June 2009
5 posts
Blog It Up
Hey Everyone, I made it to Shanghai safe and sound. I can’t really comment much about the train ride, because there is nothing to comment about. It’s pretty much what you would expect it to be: little compartments where you can fit four people, a table for your snacks, a nice window view of the country, and elevator music playing randomly. I thought it was going to have a Darjeeling...
Another Blog
Hey everyone, This is my last night here in Beijing. It’s been an interesting week for me, and just about everyone else. It’s also been the busiest. There was a lot of sight seeing and it has completely burnt me out. We don’t have anything planned in the morning, so I will get to sleep in. It’s going to be hard to narrow down what’s important and memorable and...
Beijing
Hey everyone, I am currently in Beijing at the moment. There is internet access at the hotel we are staying at and my roommate Terry has a lap top, so no internet cafes for about a week. Those were starting to bug me for one reason or another. Sunday I was still in Lijiang. It was our last day, so it was kind of a sad one because of how short our duration there was. We went to the Tiger Leaping...
Apologies
Tim has posted a ton of pictures but I won’t be able to post them because he’s taken nearly a thousand photos and posted them online. That’s far, far too many for me to try and post up one by one and I don’t have the time to take them all, put them on my hard drive, and then put them on Flickr or something.
I’ll help him set that up when he returns home, though.
New Tim!
Hey everyone, This week has been a very busy week for me. We arrived in Kunming on Monday evening. I can’t say that I am a big fan of the city. It has some upgrades when compared to Xi’an, but I like Xi’an a little more compared to Kunming. It’s one of many factors, but I’m trying not to let them effect me. I mean, I’m in a city I’ll probably never visit...
China Blog # 3
Hey guys, My time in Xi’an is coming to a close after this evening. I feel like I’ve been here for awhile, but I know that’s just my mind being homesick for whatever reason. Funny thing is, I don’t feel homesick. As much as a culture shock being here is at times, it’s nice to be away from the things you are accustomed to and away from things that bother you, making...
May 2009
24 posts
China Blog # 2
Hey again, Two days in a row I post. Hopefully that keeps people from worrying too much, if anyone is worried at all. Not a lot to add since my last posting about a day ago. Last night, the professor and I decided to walk around town just for the fun of it. It last about two hours and we came across many stand alone stores here. One of which everything there was 19 yuan ( which is really cheap,...
China Blog # 1
Hey guys, It looks like blogging on the Tumblr site isn’t going to happen. I’m at an internet cafe as I type this, and I still am blocked from the website. I’m not entirely sure why. Oh well, though. I can still blog on here. The trip from the states to Shanghai was very exhausting. There’s really not much difference with an international flight, except that you get to...
China doesn't allow Tumblr
Hi everybody, this is Tim’s brother Paul. Tim found out that the People’s Republic of China doesn’t allow access to Tumblr from China, rendering his plans to blog kind of impossible. So I offered to post what he could put up, including the blogs and pictures.
So here goes.
Welcome to my blog documenting my time in China.
I’ve never done this before, which is have a blog that is solely dedicated to one particular event in my life, so this should be interesting. Right now, I’m still preparing. Three days before my flight. No one knows what all I’ve gone through for all of this to finally happen, so preparing earlier than I should is important in my case. It’s weird to think that I am going to...