http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/ Alice sets off to China for a year, and goes with the blog flow to recount her adventures and encounters in the far east... Une année en Chine...et tout ce qui va avec. (Sûrement pas mal de choses.) fr Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:53:26 +0100 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:53:26 +0100 Over-blog.com RSS 2.0 Engine Copyright 2012 aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com Voyages http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification/ http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-15499248.html Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:43:00 +0100 c67fd53d52873e19f75baa3b8468bcc8 http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-15499248-6.html#anchorComment http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-14909769.html
Chicken feet, curious faces, bumpy roads, mysterious dishes, quiet villages, giggly children, misty swathes of land, chaotic streets, foggy mountains…But also filthy street corners, quizzical looks, endemic pollution, beggars with missing limbs or putrefied skin, extreme poverty disturbingly[...]]]> Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:59:00 +0100 f7cabeba27daf9ccff447f78b62c7001 http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-14909769-6.html#anchorComment http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-14683568.html
Hi everyone, An update will very soon sprout in this very spot, as soon as I am done with all the presentations and various exams I am currently swamped with... Many pictures and peculiar experiences to write about, so keep checking - I will have it posted by the end of this week!! Now to keep[...]]]> Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:10:00 +0100 8d4b290aa9149c904a34a476c6ec3d6f http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-14683568-6.html#anchorComment http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-14077836.html
Some more pictures...please forgive the poor quality of some of the pictures, they were all taken through the window of a bus ^^ The scenery on the way from Zhuhai to Guangzhou, across the Pearl River Delta... I found the translation of those dishes very funny, but maybe I'm the only one who[...]]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:51:00 +0100 8337ace8dd1883762759ea6b30b5bd0e http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-14077836-6.html#anchorComment http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-14065450.html
I did get quite a few comments urging me to update, and I apologize for lagging behind a little– the picture uploading process is quite tedious and that often deters me from updating…And I have had a busier life than a grasshopper on speed. Yeah…that was a lousy comparison, but it is way too[...]]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:31:00 +0100 086ef280cf751a6498e62d71de6244dd http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-14065450-6.html#anchorComment http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-13430838.html
Well, one month has come and gone, and I have to say that it has gone much better than I had initially expected. I remember arriving at the campus on the first day, in the cab, struggling to stay awake and not knowing what to tell the driver when he asked us where we wanted to be dropped off-[...]]]> Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:30:00 +0100 a2a773e685883a4bd6a9cdbc2df57973 http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-13430838-6.html#anchorComment http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-13080334.html
I realize it has been quite a while since I last posted here, I hope you haven't all deserted this blog and forgotten about it ;) Lack of time to write here obviously means my life has been crazy, and with my trip to Guangzhou at the end of the holidays, and then classes starting the following[...]]]> Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:14:00 +0200 a230f7b0042a85a5f583c9a99204bf22 http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-13080334-6.html#anchorComment http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-12809458.html
In Hong Kong... Marine, inn the cab on our way to the ferry terminal... The cab again... Just so you can have an idea of just how big Nirusha's suitcase actually was. And now picture all these handles and straps ripped off and you'll have an idea of the mess she was in ;) The campus again...[...]]]> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:17:00 +0200 6714b9ce3f44497b28821557cb3cb5c6 http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-12809458-6.html#anchorComment http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-12804242.html
Now that I finally caught up on the crazy first days, I'll be a little more detailed about my life here on this utterly remote campus. Like I said in my previous post, we are the only foreigners on the campus. Well technically, there are a few foreign teachers, but when it comes to students,[...]]]> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:28:00 +0200 e43e1ce9d85e2a64f33a43abd3c1ba55 http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-12804242-6.html#anchorComment http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-12778780.html
I really wish I had written down all the anecdotes we came across in those first few days. First impressions: - Chinese drivers really are insane. It's not a myth. We found that out on our first night, as we held on to dear life while trying to cross the road to get something to eat.The fact[...]]]> Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:01:00 +0200 a1f1158b29009967fc0f69f3b9a34a05 http://aliceinthefareast.over-blog.com/article-12778780-6.html#anchorComment