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The novel that I wrote for NaNoWriMo this November is entered into a contest at Jukepop where I could win $200 and have it put in a library. To win I need a lot of +votes. To read my novel you have to sign in to the site but you can do that by signing in with FB. The contest ends at the end of February I'll update at least a chapter a week and if ( Read more... )

I was lucky since my flight wasn’t too early in the day, so I was able to get a taxi to the CAAC Hotel to get a shuttle bus back to the airport. And the taxi ride ended up being about 17 RMB. When we got to the hotel there was the shuttle bus right out front. When I got out of the taxi another taxi driver tried to get me to go with him in a regular ( Read more... )

This one was a bit complicated, and confusing to get to and find. It was the only thing I wanted to see on the opposite side of the city from my hostel. I got the directions off of google maps. There were three buses that go that way 3, 203, and 25, according to Google. The number three bus had the least amount of walking so I took that one.

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So I signed up for a tour that would go to the Dragon Backbone Rice Terraces. I was a bit apprehensive about it, since the one in Beijing for the Great Wall didn’t turn out all for the best. But this Tour Group was good. There was the tour guide Vivi, a German guy that teaches at the Polytechnic University in Dalian, a Chinese guy who said he ( Read more... )

There are a few bus stops near my hostel but when you look at the map the bus stop I would need to go to were always not in the best position for getting to where I wanted to go. For example the Seven Stars Peak was on the opposite side of the river and the bus to get there was on the same road just a block or so over on the wrong side of the river ( Read more... )

I woke up the next morning and ate some of the chocolate hazelnut crackers and tried to take a shower. The water was still cold, so I figured I would tell them when I was leaving. I couldn’t get the WiFi to work, which in the end I seemed to be the only one that couldn’t get the WiFi to work in the building. It worked long enough for me to pull up ( Read more... )