
Along with the sixteen classes I teach each week here at my high school (55 kids per class = around 960 kids), I agreed to also teach an additional two classes on Wednesday afternoons for a group of bright, motivated kids for an English Club (EC). They asked Jenny to help me (thankfully!) so we both get together and teach thirty-two of the top English speaking students at my school and we really enjoy these kids because they can express themselves in English fairly well, even though they are in their first year, Grade 1, of high school English. The English Club gets a few perks, the main one being a day-long field trip this semester with me and Jennifer where the object is to have fun but also speak English with us all day. This year the kids voted and we are headed to a day in a neighboring city of historical significance,
Yangzhou.
Yangzhou is in a neighboring province, Hunan, and it is a prefecture-level city. A prefecture-level city is not a "city" in the usual sense of the term, instead of urban sprawl it's an administrative unit comprising, typically, of a main central urban area (a city
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Sean,
I have noticed in many of the photo's of your students, they all seem to (at one time or another) to be wearing white and blue ball caps. I am assuming that these would be the school colors (like their wind breakers).
Is this correct?
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Still Young...Jenny again, doing the culturally-correct girl-smile...she's sitting on an antique Qing Dynasty chair which makes her all the more pristine and innocent, yes??
How to conquer the world...Your friendly author, sitting for a spell and entertaining the throngs of students who like to polish my bald noggin'...I too am sitting and contemplating in a Qing Dynasty chair and it was definitely
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Beautiful Boat Worker...At first she completely ignored my attempts to take her picture, so I got one of my students to ask her for a quick snap and she happily obliged...she will serve you a delicious meal as you float arou
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Traditional dress...This couple was dressed in traditional period clothing and would ham it up in any pose you asked for, and they didn't even charge any money...amazing.
City Model in Yangzhou MuseumThis is a just a partial view of an incredible detailed model of the entire city of Yangzhou...it was about a 100 x 100 feet....
Living legends...The Chinese love to use these life-like statues in exhibits, I love em' too...The Emperor here is getting some sort of news..probably bad...
Fat lady print...This print was over in a corner sort of out of the way and I really like it, the color and detail were beautiful...notice her feet are bound, but she's still smiling...hmmmmm...
Woodworking in MuseumThis guy sits at a counter all day carving these wood blocks so they can be used for etched prints...the detail was impossible to believe and even harder to show in a picture, let's just say the dude
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Ari Who?This is Jenny giving a high-five to Aristotle in an exhibit that had the three major thinkers in history - Aristotle, Buddha, and Confucius together...
Rinyun suspension bridge...This is the largest suspension bridge in China, third largest in the world...uh, yea, it's big...over 800 ft. high in some places...
Deng XiaopingThis is their last President, Deng Xiaoping, who is originally from Yangzhou and had the idea not only to build the bridge but to bring the construction to his home city...$$$$$$
Between a rock and a...Somehow Jenny managed to get separated from our group and got stuck in this rock...Juan felt awful about it the rest of the day...:(
Karaoke on the bus...You won't find another group of folks who love to sing more than the Chinese...they sing their hearts out in school, on buses, in their karaoke bars called KTV's...Jenny and I got them started and the
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Sean,
I have noticed in many of the photo's of your students, they all seem to (at one time or another) to be wearing white and blue ball caps. I am assuming that these would be the school colors (like their wind breakers).
Is this correct?
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