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Published: September 5th 2012
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The campus
Here's the campus. There are a lot of trees, open spaces, and the buildings are very new. Things are really starting to look up, now that I've had a week to adjust to everything.
I really like the food here - I like that it's locally grown without pesticides, and it tastes good.
The teachers are really nice and I'm starting to make some good friends in my department.
The campus is really, really nice. The facilities here are amazing. There is an indoor, olympic-size swimming pool, a sports facility with basketball and pingpong tables, a meditation park, a track, a soccer field, and overall everything is really well maintained.
Also, another foreign teacher was sent here today from Beijing, so I have some foreign-teacher company and we get TWO rides to Beijing each month.
In honor of the new foreign teachers, we had a lovely dinner in the "private" area of the cafeteria, hosted by our director. The food was really good, and there was so much of it. It was eaten in true chinese fashion - everything was placed on a spinning table and we just ate off the communal plates. Hope nobody we were eating with had a cold! We had porridge, vegetables, and a couple different kinds of meats
Teacher's Apartments
Here is the teacher's apartment building. in sauces. My favorites were the fried soybeans in honey and the twice cooked pork. The pork dish was really savory and tasted like the Chinese food I'm used to from home. The soybeans in honey were really sweet and crunchy; very interesting served as a dinner food. We were also served tomatoes with sugar! I asked if tomatoes were considered a fruit in China, but they said no. So I was a little confused about the sugar.
I'm sorry I didn't take any pictures of the delicious foods at dinner, but I didn't want to look totally gauche in front of my new boss by photographing the banquet he had for us.
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Marthe
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Hurray!
So glad it is getting better. Love the pics, keep adding more.