http://jrfielding.com/wp Adventures in Religion and Film Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:55:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My surprise for this morning was that we were meeting in the lobby at 6 a.m. Oh joy. Today was action-packed with one stop after another. We climbed onto our tour bus, made a quick stop to pick up three additional people from Texas, and then headed to a ... http://jrfielding.com/wp/?p=190 I forgot to mention that while my group was out shopping the night before, they got dinner, leaving me to figure out what to eat. My best option seemed to be the hotel’s dining room. One glance at the menu told me to try the white fish in lemon sauce. ... http://jrfielding.com/wp/?p=187 Woke up feeling weak, and my heart was fluttering. Initially, I didn’t think much of it, but after getting ready for the day thought that this probably wasn’t normal, especially since I also felt breathless. Since I still had an Internet connection, I looked up my symptoms and got back ... http://jrfielding.com/wp/?p=184 I decided that since we were leaving around 9:30 a.m. for Beijing, I wouldn’t bother with the horrid basement breakfast. After getting ready, I dashed out of the hotel. When we had arrived in Shanghai I noticed a sign that had mentioned a nearby temple. I had said something to ... http://jrfielding.com/wp/?p=181 For some odd reason, our air conditioning doesn't work. It starts out OK, but by morning it is fucking hot in the room. I woke up because of the heat. The others said they woke up in a pile of sweat. So lovely. Our breakfast came courtesy of the hotel, ... http://jrfielding.com/wp/?p=164 On the agenda was a trip to the Sun Yat Sen Memorial, but we didn't go. No idea why. Since it was our last day in Guangzhou, I thought I would take a short stroll around the block; get some drinks. I went into the 7-Eleven and got a razor, ... http://jrfielding.com/wp/?p=162 Because of the spa incident, we didn't keep to the schedule. We got up on our own and had breakfast in the lobby. I discovered baked beans on the buffet line-up and was pretty excited to have beans on toast for breakfast.  They also had some fried potato cubes that ... http://jrfielding.com/wp/?p=160 Our hotel is quite nice. The lobby floors are marble and the art/furnishings are sort of 19th century Neo-Classic.  Maybe a bit too Western but it's definitely a hotel that I wouldn't be able to afford anywhere else. Because of all of the adoptions that go through Guangzhou, the breakfast ... http://jrfielding.com/wp/?p=158 The other people in my group had two meetings at a local university on our last day in Hong Kong, so I was on my own. I was a bit uneasy about it, because the subway system is very confusing. (Oddly, for how big it is, I could never find ... http://jrfielding.com/wp/?p=156 At the table, I was feeling better, but not so much. Peter handed me a menu, but, as I said, it was pig knuckles on this or that, and chicken wings with an egg on whatever … yuck. I ordered a Sprite, and just chatted with them. They ordered rice ... http://jrfielding.com/wp/?p=137