The Lemmertorium » China http://lemmertorium.com Mischeif, Myrth, and Mayhem. Brought to you by the Lemmerts! Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:26:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-RC3-15241 China Trip # 2 ~ Itinerary & Map http://lemmertorium.com/2010/06/13/china-trip-2-itinerary-map/ http://lemmertorium.com/2010/06/13/china-trip-2-itinerary-map/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:28:04 +0000 clemmert http://lemmertorium.com/?p=278

 

Map | Calendar

Places We’ll Be (tentatively):
  • Hong Kong
  • Shenzhen
  • Shanghai
  • Suzhou (our base of operations)
  • Qingdao
  • Xian
  • Chengdu
  • Guilin
  • Guangzhou
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Another interesting thing about blood types in China is that most Chinese people believe that your blood type is related to your personality.  Fortunately for me, O is considered to be a nice and generous personality.  Actually, fortunately for the world, because O is the most common blood type in almost all races.

]]> http://lemmertorium.com/2010/04/17/im-positive/feed/ 0 We miss you too, Jared! http://lemmertorium.com/2007/02/05/we-miss-you-too-jared/ http://lemmertorium.com/2007/02/05/we-miss-you-too-jared/#comments Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:11:44 +0000 Cory http://lemmertorium2.com/blog/2007/02/we-miss-you-too-jared/ I stopped by Jared’s blog the other day and noticed a post entitled “coryandlacey“. It was written a while back, but I took the time to run it through a translator. This is what Jared said:

“Cory and lacey had to return to homeland, had the trifle moved! Once together was spending together the happy time regarding these two american, I now did not know had to say any! Only can be wishes their good luck! First time meets by chance is in Yucheng in the one, had not thought after the college entrance examination the summer vacation could in the more than half month time, at that time we become the friend together! Has the friend to come from the distant place, delight! Much less is two foreign friends! Did not know because any they must return to homeland ahead of time, the summer vacation distinction became parted forever!”

It was a really nice post. It was written in Chinese, and there are simply no good translators on the internet to make it sound right, but you get the idea.

Thanks Jared, we miss you too!

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Yao Ming

Apparently McDonalds thinks so. Ads in China can be pretty crazy, and it’s always great to see something that makes sense to a Chinese person come out completely crazy when viewed by a westerner.

In this ad Yao Ming is either making bull horns while encouraging people to eat beef, or he’s worshipping Satan. You be the judge.

From: One Billion Users and Shanghaiist

[tags]Yao Ming, Satan, McDonalds[/tags]

]]> http://lemmertorium.com/2007/01/10/is-yao-ming-the-devil/feed/ 0 MeiLan, the Baby Panda http://lemmertorium.com/2006/12/17/meilan-the-baby-panda/ http://lemmertorium.com/2006/12/17/meilan-the-baby-panda/#comments Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:50:49 +0000 Cory http://lemmertorium2.com/blog/2006/12/17/meilan-the-baby-panda/ China holds a special place in my heart. Lacey and I lived there for 9 months, and have only recently returned. Whenever I hear interesting news about the country, and especially it’s relation to the US, I plan to blog about it.

That brings us to today’s news from Atlanta. A panda cub has recently been born, and in a ceremony was named “Mei Lan“, or “Beautiful Atlanta“.

You can check out the article here, and here’s a short video of the MeiLan taking her first steps.

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]]> http://lemmertorium.com/2006/12/17/meilan-the-baby-panda/feed/ 0 Happy Thanksgiving! http://lemmertorium.com/2006/11/22/happy-thanksgiving/ http://lemmertorium.com/2006/11/22/happy-thanksgiving/#comments Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:19:42 +0000 Lacey http://lemmertorium2.com/blog/?p=75 Sorry its been so long since we’ve posted! I’m not that great at it (I don’t even know how to put pictures up with posts) and Cory hasn’t felt like it. He says that now that we’re not in China nothing is exciting enough to post about. I figure people still want to know what we’re up to. Anyway, we haven’t even posted galleries from our Meizhou trip or our parents in Beijing yet. So hopefully we’ll get some of those pictures up soon. Basically, Cory’s right though. We aren’t leading that exciting lives anymore. We are trying to find jobs in NE and SD right now, looking at three cities mainly. We are just pingponging back and forth between our parents’ houses. So we are still jobless and homeless. And we miss China. But things are going pretty good. We are getting excited about a few job and art opportunities, excited to be home for Christmas, and have had fun doing a lot of talks in churches about our experience in China. So thanks for all your support and we hope you have a very happy Thanksgiving and are home with family to enjoy it.

]]> http://lemmertorium.com/2006/11/22/happy-thanksgiving/feed/ 2 Parents and Joe Arrived in Beijing! http://lemmertorium.com/2006/10/09/parents-and-joe-arrived-in-beijing/ http://lemmertorium.com/2006/10/09/parents-and-joe-arrived-in-beijing/#comments Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:16:17 +0000 Lacey http://lemmertorium2.com/blog/?p=74  forbidden city

 Yes our parents and Cory’s brother who have never travelled out of the country have arrived safe and sound in Beijing! Besides wearing them out with all the walking, I think they are doing good and we are having fun teaching them about Chinese culture. This is a picture of us at the Forbidden City!  

]]> http://lemmertorium.com/2006/10/09/parents-and-joe-arrived-in-beijing/feed/ 5 New Galleries! http://lemmertorium.com/2006/09/24/new-galleries/ http://lemmertorium.com/2006/09/24/new-galleries/#comments Sun, 24 Sep 2006 04:07:47 +0000 Lacey http://lemmertorium2.com/blog/?p=73 There are three new galleries up. One is of our trip to Grape Mountain and Yantai. We went with YaNan and Kyle to eat and buy this area’s famous grapes. They were delicious. Then we decided to go on to a city on the coast, Yantai. Yantai is a port city with some European history. We didn’t find too much to do there but ate at Pizza Hut and went to Wal-Mart which felt a little like home. We also went to a Daoist temple to look around. click here to see The next gallery is of a day of playing in the park with two of our students that also go to our church and we hang around with sometimes. click here to see The newest one is of a day we spent visiting with some church people. We all went to a church lady’s date farm. It was a lot of fun. We picked dates, shoveled peanuts, and did some cricket chasing! There are no pictures of our cricket chasing but we have some videos that I think Cory will post later. Yes, we caught a lot of crickets and yes they were for the church people to take home and fry them up to eat! click here to see

]]> http://lemmertorium.com/2006/09/24/new-galleries/feed/ 2 Catching Up http://lemmertorium.com/2006/09/22/catching-up/ http://lemmertorium.com/2006/09/22/catching-up/#comments Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:46:46 +0000 Lacey http://lemmertorium2.com/blog/?p=72 Well, we’ve been to the big grape mountain, a city called Yantai, out to play on the net bridges at the park, and to a date farm where we chased crickets in the last few weeks. We of course have pictures from all these excursions and I’ve been waiting on Cory to post them, but I think I might have to take matters into my own hands! He’s been working with a new movie website he wants to start and hasn’t got around to posting them. So I guess I need to figure out how to save them to the flash drive and post them on the website so that you guys can get an update on what we’ve been doing. So hopefully within the next day or so there will be new galleries and posts. Thanks for your patience!

]]> http://lemmertorium.com/2006/09/22/catching-up/feed/ 2 Congrats to the Minteers (all 3 of them) http://lemmertorium.com/2006/09/20/congrats-to-the-minteers-all-3-of-them/ http://lemmertorium.com/2006/09/20/congrats-to-the-minteers-all-3-of-them/#comments Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:30:31 +0000 clemmert http://lemmertorium2.com/blog/?p=71 hannah minteer

Jim and Melanie had Hannah Avada on Sunday, September 10 at 3:36 AM.  Congratulations!
Stats:
18 1/4 inches
6 lbs, 1 oz
+2 Ch/-2 Str

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