I had a chance to play Santa at a couple friends’ schools
This is Christine. She wanted a laptop, so I let her sit on my lap.
Here’s a few more pictures which are representative of venue.
Christmas Santa Was Cool
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Monthly Archives: December 2014
McDonalds is Open
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- At the Donut in the Sky (Big Cross)
McDonalds was opened on Christmas Eve. Prices seem reasonable with a Big Mac, Fries, and a Coke at under 25rmb. Upsized fries is about 27.5rmb. Stu spoke Chinese and ass’t manager translated his Chinese for him, and screwed it up. Then the cash register was jammed and they had to call the Manager over to override it. The wait staff needs to be a little better trained, but altogether it was a good experience at a reasonable price.
Guiyang For Laowai (Getting Around in Guiyang)
The Guiyang for Laowai is listed below (prior post) and is a guidebook written by volunteers, all foreigners. It is in it’s third edition and goes obsolete rapidly. There are plenty good restaurants and other places of interest listed, in addition to what you find here. You may need a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to download it. The VPN gets through the firewall an lets you view western sites. I use Astrill ( https://www.astrill.com/ ), but there are several others out there. Astrill runs about $6 or $7 a month which is typical. If you have a friend with “Free” “gate” (spelling intentionally altered) he can probably give you the program, but their website is blocked from China. It’s a free vpn.
I am Jack, and am the administrator of this site. I am rethinking this site and need suggestions for new content, and of course, content contributors. If you have ideas, please contact me at johnsporter@gmail.com .
Guiyang For Laowai
The Guiyang for Laowai directory for Guiyang is now available for download from my Dropbox account. You will probably need a VPN to access that download, but here it is:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w835wlm4w28w4nt/Guiyang%20for%20laowai.pdf?dl=0
I am working on an interactive web page that will allow us to update this directory online with comments, directly below an image of each page. This is an active community and it is extremely difficult to keep this info updated. Any suggestions will be welcome.
Learn Calculus
My friend’s son wants to go to the USA and wants to learn English. He is teaching me some Chinese and I am teaching him some English. He doesn’t like math, but is pretty good at English. I told him that he needs to learn math, not just English. In the USA, there are a lot of people who know how to speak English. He needs to know more than just that. He needs math.
So here is the problem I gave him . . .
If you stand on the sideline of a soccer field what is the spot on that line that gives you the widest net to shoot at? You can test some sample values using sines and cosines to estimate that spot, but there is only one spot on that sideline that is the best. If you learn enough calculus to solve this problem, you will be strong. If you can’t do it, you will be weak.
