Posts Tagged ‘Jinan’

10 years of Sinopenn!?

Posted: 2nd March 2011 by Eric D in SinoPenn
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Well, not really, but I recently found my old Live Journal & decided to import the whole damn thing here. It now goes all the way back to 2001, from the day before I arrived in China! I didn’t even know I wrote about stuff back then. I even found my original 9/11 post. 10 [...]

Last Thursday I got a call from David Akast. He pointed out an article on the Seattle Times about a guy who just appeared in Discovery Park with amnesia, saying something along the lines of, “I think this is Ed Lighthart.”  I saw the picture, and indeed it was good old Eddie.  I first met [...]

Beware the Cyber Police

Posted: 24th January 2007 by Eric D in SinoPenn
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Jinan (and most likely the rest of China) has a new service you can link your sites to! Welcome to the Jinan Cyber Police reporting station! You too can help rid China of unwanted websites with just a little personal information & the click of a few buttons (don’t forget to click on “Harmful Information”. [...]

Memorial Weekend

Posted: 2nd June 2002 by Eric D in SinoPenn
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This weekend found me in Zibo again. I left friday afternoon and stayed until saturday morning. Good western food, lots of beer, brandy and wine and alot of Zibo lao weis I’ve never seen before packed the third floor of Zibo Xue Yuan’s foreigner housing. By the end of the night, Aine and I were [...]

The attacks in New York and D.C.

Posted: 11th September 2001 by Eric D in SinoPenn
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I don’t even know what to say about tonight as a whole yet, so I’ll start from the beginning. After leaving the supermarket, Janet and I decided to head back to our campus. When we got there, we went to the internet bar outside our campus. She did her usual tons of e-mail, and I [...]

There ARE Americans here!

Posted: 9th September 2001 by Eric D in SinoPenn
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Finally, Americans!!! American Food! American clubs! We hit the jackpot in Jinan! Someone Jason, Janet’s student, introduced us to met us at a place called Jenny’s Café. Mileena has been here for about three years now, and she knows her way around, and has a pretty decent command of the Chinese language. She introduced us [...]