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Shanghai Day Trip

(February 15th) On Friday Haruko and I planned a day trip out to visit Shanghai. We took the bullet train which is around 25 minutes. We bought tickets to go on the maglev which is a magnetic levitation train, meaning it technically floats on the tracks. It was really...

Third Times A Charm

By the third and last day touring with Lloyd we had become good friends.  We planned a lunch at the Opera that day in another Ancient town called Pingjiang Road. To both our surprise the one day we went there was no Opera at lunch only around dinner time. So we...

Second day touring!

The students were on holiday when I arrived in China and their second semester started up February 18th. Many went home for the holidays but to my luck Lloyd was back in Suzhou from the 10th-13th then had to go away. So for those 3 days I got to go out and visit some...

Cheese Tea

Yes, you read the title correctly. They have cheese tea here and it’s a very popular drink. My first thought was like cheddar flavoured tea and it didn’t seem good. But I didn’t realize that it’s cream cheese they put on top to mix into your...

Chinese Garden

Since Dan is an international English teacher I got the opportunity to meet some of his students who are around my age. I got to meet Lloyd first. We went out for sushi which was delicious and I tried some interesting foods I wouldn’t have if I was out by...