Blogs from Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, China, Asia - page 5

so, while I'm trying to upload some videos of the show, I'll update you on the rest of the week. Last week, Carol asked Candice and Fabrice if a camera crew from the local tv channel could film them for a day. It wouldn't be that weird except hat the reason the picked the 2 of them is that their skin is darker! lol, anywhere else that would be racist and offensive, but not in China. They said that they want to show that they have people of all races teaching at our school, so thats kind of nice i guess..i don't know its just funny that they would even ask them and not think it was weird... So, yea..monday morning around 8am the camera crew knocked on our apt building door cause they were there ... read more

so i've been here forever, lol..and i think the waitresses are waiting for me to leave..but i just wanted to upload a few pics from candice's camera..enjoy!... read more

After my last class yesterday around 4:00, I got back to the room and decided that it was really rediculous that we had to go down the street to the internet cafe and buy something even just to check our email or quickly look up something especially when there are tons of computers on the school's campus. So, I called Carol and asked her if there was a computer somewhere I could use to get online for a little while. She said that she'd have the computer teachers come look at the problem, and surprisingly he actually showed up knocking on our building's door 5 minutes later. Luckily I was there to let them in and they were there for awhile looking at different things with the modems and on my computer. They said that they ... read more

Well I went to Nanjing 2 days ago, and I came back to Zhangjiagang the following day. I wasn't the slightest bit impressed by what I saw, nor could I be bothered to do all the touristy things, nor did I want to spend much more money and I also felt ill and just wanted to go back home to rest. Upon arrival in Nanjing I had some difficulties finding myself a place to stay, but after phoning Paul who was in Nanjing and knew the number of the cheap hostel, and a few phone calls and a helpful taxi driver later I finally managed to find my way to the cheap hostel in Fuzi Miao (or however you spell it). The hostel was nice, although there were no lockers in the dorm rooms so I ... read more

Sorry for the long delay in blog entries! I haven't really had much to write about lately, plus I've been busy at work so not really anytime to do anything exciting. It's currently winter school which means I get hardly any time off, I'm currently on day 7 of a 10 day stretch with no breaks. It doesn't suck as much as it sounds because the hours are very regular, I only teach 2 classes a day and I'm finished by 3:15 in the afternoon, which suits me really nicely. Sometimes I get the mornings off because I've finished 2 courses lately. And this morning was the second morning I've just watched a film with my class, so it's not all that bad. The week before last I took full advantage of the huge amounts of ... read more