Blogs from Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, China, Asia - page 2

So I am finally going to China to teach English in Zhangjiagang on Thursday- this is weather permitting, but I'm hopeful!!! I've squeezed all 38kg of my allowance into 3 bags, almost finished my chinese for beginners cd and bought myself a copy of the time traveller's wife. my reason for doing this blog is so that I can show my family/friends how I'm going on, and put up some pretty pictures-just subscribe and sign up and you can comment - it's kinda like a temporary facebook (it's banned over there). So excited!!! See you on the other side of the world!!!... read more

my last classes..gonna miss my crazy kids so much!... read more

So, I haven't written since last week when we were all just happy that we weren't anywhere near the earthquake, and weren't really aware of how catastrophic it really was. As the number of victims has gone up though, and as we found out that so many of the victims were kids, it's been extremely sad here for everyone. On Tuesday, the day after the earthquake, we had a school-wide ceremony outside which was really nice. The principal spoke and and there was a moment of silence. Everyone was standing in lines by grade and in front of each grade was a donation box. The kids went up one by one and put money to donate in the boxes. There was also a line for teachers, and of course there was a photographer from the newspaper ... read more

hey! I brought the letters my 6th graders had written to their penpals this morning to read while I was eating dinner tonight, and omg I was actually laughing out loud! I'm gonna look through them now as I'm typing this and put up some quotes here for you enjoy, haha. hopefully you'll actually think they're funny and its not just because i'm exhausted after teaching & tutoring for 6 days straight! lol. " This is my mobile number. But please call me in July or August. Because I'm busy now. I will go to middle school in September. I must study hard now." "My favorite food is meat but I'm not very fat. I have a thin sister." "It was a very long time ago I wrote a letter to you. I wanted your letter ... read more

heyy, just figured I'd update with news from the the last few weeks... First, I went to Fen Si Jia's house the past 2 weekends which was fun. The first weekend me and Candice went out to dinner with her family to a hotpot restaurant in Jianying, the city next to Zhangjiagang. I'm guessing we must have hotpot restaurants at home, and I've just never been to one, but if not..its kinda like fondue where there's a big pot in a hole in the table filled with broth and you cook all the food yourself. We got tons and tons of vegetables, some meat (which made me realize that at home i would have been soo grossed out by raw meat on the table but here i didn't care, lol), and some roll type bread things ... read more