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By SigChi79
September 21st 2008

Cooking in Southern China -

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Teamwork!
Teamwork!
We entered the contest as a cooking team. Not sure what Marc's part was.
Another Shunde experience took place on Sunday as we entered the "Shunde Cooking Contest" hosted by the mayor and other gov't officials. Marc came home from work a week ago saying that I had to cook in this contest and I said "no way." First I cannot find the ingredients here to cook any American dishes and I told him I did not want to participate. However he comes home the next day with the recipe I am to use. It is called Asian Stir Fry Chicken with Assorted Peppers, and all the ingredients would be on hand at the contest, [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 21st 2008 | 72 Views | [diary=325819]

Preparation
The Competition
Support from our Friends

Creative Lesson Plans
Creative Lesson Plans
Trying to get them to open up and not be so shy is one of the greatest challenges.
I came to China to join my husband who was working here as a general manager, and wasn't sure about the teaching opportunities. Being in an area that has few foreigners, in fact I know of no other Americans here in this city, my first priority was to just get acclimated to my new location in a new culture where I did not speak the language. After several months I was asked to teach for a language company in a school nearby. Naively I said yes, but after only 2 days decided that this was not for me. The class size [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 22nd 2008 | 130 Views | [diary=289904]

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Reindeer Face

Map of China
Map of China
We are in Guangdong Province. The southern most province (except for Hainan). We call it the "Mississippi" of China.
We have heard from so many friends this week after the China Earthquake that we at least want to let people know where we are and that we are safe in southern China. We have been here nearly 2 years and enjoyed this adventure even more than we expected. Even though Shunde is a city of over 1 million people Google hasn't even added it to their map. Shunde is located just a 1 hour drive south of Guangzhou which is a major city of 8 million people and is just 2 hours northwest from Hong Kong. It is an easy [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 14th 2008 | 580 Views | [diary=275731]

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