5.24.2008 To the Ocean
Saturday, May 24th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffGot laundry back from the service this morning and it was only 5$. I think the person (Dr. Kim) who is staying with us in the hotel has some kind of connection with the hotel. We have been getting a ...
5.23.2008 Lecture at Chonam University
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffWell, woke up this morning at 5:30am just because I was awake. Took a shower in the pimp jaccuzi tub and then went down to wait for the bus. It was pretty peaceful this morning, and I walked across the ...
5.22.2008 The Sturgeon Farm
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffEveryone was hurting this morning and moving relatively slow due to last night's festivities. I didn't have much so I was ok, but most of us were moving slower than normal. We had to load everything on the bus today ...
5.21.2008 The Spa…
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffThis morning was early because I planned to go to the spa with some of the other folks. I didn't get much rest this evening because of a cough I seem to have developed over the last couple days. ...
5.20.2008 Trip to Uljin
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffWell, today we are going out to Uljin near the coast. We got up and instead of eating breakfast down in the restaurant in the hotel, Dick, Mike, Denise and I went to the "French Baguette" shop down the ...
5.19.2008 The International Symposium
Monday, May 19th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffThis morning, we went to the international symposium and listened to the first two sessions. The first session was Dick, Mike, and Dr. Moon. Then a coffee break and more talks from other professors in Japan and China. I spent ...
5.18.2008 Condo to Daegu
Monday, May 19th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffToday, we got up in the condo. It was terribly hot last night. I like sleeping on the floor and that was great, but the floor was heated, and we were on feather beds. It was so hot I couldn't ...
5.17.2008 pepper greenhouses and condos
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffToday, we got up, went down to breakfast in the hotel, and had an American style breakfast. We discussed what we were going to do if we can't go inland to China because of earthquake aftershocks. That is a scary ...
5.15.2008
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffThis morning, we got up early again ? the traffic is loud here at all times of the day and night ? and went down to meet the students for breakfast. We ended up riding to the university again and ...
5.14.2008 First Day in South Korea
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffWe got up early this morning and met all the students. There are 9 students, and 3 teachers (4 including me) and we got on a bus and headed for Yeungnam University. There were bagels, fruit, and coffee waiting for ...
5.13.2008 Flight to Daegu South Korea
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffWell, today I had to get up at 4am to get ready to leave by 5am to go to Shanghai. The driver (whom I had never met) called me right at 5am from down in the parking lot of the ...
5.12.2008 Last Day in Hangzhou
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffLast day at Hangzhou. I went to work and met Liu Hai Lin early in the morning (7:30am) to go to a nursery center with her. We rode the bus out to West Hangzhou and then walked to a hotel ...
5.11.2008 Walking at West Lake
Sunday, May 11th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffGot up this morning and called home to see how dad was faring with his quest to get ready for a 5 week trip to China and South Korea. He leaves in a day. After that, I decided to walk ...
5.10.2008 Walking to West Lake
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffWell, I woke up this morning and didn't feel that great. My stomach was bothering me, so I stayed in for a little bit, but then decided to walk to West lake. It took longer than I expected, but when ...
5.09.2008 Cherry Orchard
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffToday, I started out with breakfast in the cafeteria, and then went to the office to meet Liu Hai Lin so we could go to the Cherry orchard run by Zhejing University. A couple gentlemen picked us up (one was ...
5.08.2008 Difficult Papers and GDP / GPI
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffNot a ton to report today. I did write a paper and did quite a bit of research today about country GDP and other indicies that might offer a better way to consider development than does GDP. The paper was ...
Back to Hangzhou
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffEven though it was a long day yesterday and I went to bed late, I couldn't sleep much last night. Woke up at 4:30am and couldn't get back to sleep. I was partially thinking about Mr. Chen and what he ...
5.6.2008 My Older (but much shorter) Brother
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffToday we went to the Nanchang nursery owned by Mr. Chen. It turns out that Mr. Huang runs the Jiangxi branch of the Blue Sky business. The night and morning went more smoothly than expected. I can see how someone ...
5.5.2008 Let’s go to Nanchang!
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffToday was pretty stressful altogether. A good day though, to be sure. I was a bit nervous this morning when I had to pack everything up. I wasn't sure where things would stay, or what I needed to take to ...
5.05.2008 The New Zhejing Campus
Sunday, May 4th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffToday I went to the new Zhejing campus again to visit with xinxin and some other students who came to Iowa State University last year. I was picked up by one of xinxin's friends in a BMW (her brothers). He ...