Monthly Archives: June 2008
Mount Tai
Mount Tai, Tai’AN, Shandong. The Chinese word for mountain is Shan; therefore it’s known as Tai Shan, Mount Tai or Mountain Tai (pronounced ‘tie’). It’s bang next to the small city of Tai’An. It’s 1 hour by Train from Jinan … Continue reading
Nailing Your Colours To the Mast
Nailing your colours to the mast is an expression that comes from long ago … from the time of wooden sailing/fighting ships. The ‘colours’ are of course the flag of the country/nation. Before a battle, the fighting ships would ‘nail’ … Continue reading
Zibo Museum
Zibo, just a couple of hours by bus from Weifang. It’s an oil and chemical-production city but it also has a couple of interesting museums. One of them is in Linzi, an outlying district of Zibo. To see all the museums … Continue reading
Almost a Year
Remember September 2007? Remember how everything seemed so new and different when you first came to Weifang University? New faces, new people … and my, how time flies! Classes 07-1, 07-2 and 07-3 have a ‘skydrive’ folder at the top … Continue reading
Teaching in China 