Links links links links

http://www.china.org.cn/
http://www.chinaontv.com/index.php/map
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language

Qigong Tai Ji

Want to learn and practice Qigong and Tai Ji?
I finaly found a group in the Senior Center Allen. Nice group with people helping you to learn.
Free of charge!!! But you have to be over 50 (years old) to be accepted in the senior center!
You also can do more, learning Tai Ji and Qigong for your health. Go simply to http://www.simplyaware.com/ , and Fayne and Chris will be glad to have you in one of there workshops.

My first TaiJi and QiGong lesson in Kunshan, Jiangsu CN

Chinese language and culture

Want to meet people from China or knowing China very well?
Want to learn or improve your mandarin?
You live around Dallas?

The DFW Chinese Language Meetup Group

Meet and mingle with fellow Chinese Speakers! Come to a Chinese Language Meetup to practice speaking or simply hang out with others interested in China! All ages and levels

http://chinese.meetup.com/286/

News

http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=14495865


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I love being in China. People are friendly, you never feel as a foreigner. Even without speaking much Chinese, they try to communicate. My best experience: being invited by a Tai Ji group in Kunshan Jiangsu. For about 5 months, I participated every morning at 5:30 in their outdoor exercises, even when it was raining. We became friends and I learned also some Chinese words. Teaching English in a school for children of migrant workers was also a strong experience. I never saw western children so motivated. And last not least my own Chinese studies, first with my friend Liu Wei Gang, later in a school in Shanghai. What a great experience!!

The food, the landscape, the contrast between on one side the old, traditional and dirty China and on the other side this fast growing, fast learning young China are always impressing. And even when it seems for us to be so miserable, people are happy, play and sleep when ever it is possible, but work also day and night. From my very first trip to China in 2000 (Shanghai, Beijing, Xi'An), I visit in the last 4 years while living in Kunshan Jinagsu Province and QingPu Shanghai all major city's around like Suzhou and Hangzhou. I went to charming places like Wuzhen and Huang Shan. I went shopping to Yiwu, the international trade city and much more.

And when I am away, I wish I could go back immediately.