Hey all, So it feels like years since I have posted. I figure now that things have calmed down a bit I'll fill everyone in on what i've been doing. I can't really remember the month of March it just flew by so I'll start in April. At the start of April we had our accreditation inspection. Well this was just a fabulous feeling. It was three days of having someone sit in my classes, check my lesson plans, my mark book and interviewing me. Mind you I guess I can't complain because the woman inspecting us was really nice. She [View Full Entry]

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hey Everyone, I really sorry, but I haven't had time to post about my trip during Chinese new year. I did post pictures to facebook and here are the links. I dont know if i'll have time to write a post. I've done so much and i'm so busy right now with school and the like. I probably wont be taking a trip until may now when I run the great wall marathon. I hope you can hold out until then for your china fix. I hope you enjoy the pictures. Snow in China http://uwaterloo.facebook.com/album.php?aid=18575&l=0e495&id=503686983 Hong Kong http://uwaterloo.facebook.com/ [View Full Entry]

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Pictures from Danyang can be found here Pictures of all the kid rides i have found are here Last weekend, January 5th, we went to a place called Glass City or Danyang in Chinese. This place is famous for eyeglasses, and believe it or not we went to buy glasses. We went with a whole entourage of people, 10 to be exact. We all boarded the train to Danyang at 8 30 am. This was kinda crappy for a Saturday. I generally like to sleep u [View Full Entry]

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A full selection of pictures can be found here Well contrary to what my students told me back in September about maybe having snow in February, we got snow TODAY. When I woke up, at 10, I looked outside and notice a nice blanket of snow on the ground. I quickly got Liz and woke up Christine to tell them the news. This doesn't sound like a big deal, but this city has not seen an accumulation of snow in 3 years. So after having a quick look around the school to see the snow we decided to make a trek [View Full Entry]

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Christmas Pictures 1 Christmas Pictures 2 Hello everyone and seasons greetings. Here is an update on how my christmas went in China. I had many mixed feelings durning the past couple weeks. To start off Christmas really is not celebrated in in China. So I really was unaware of the fact that is was christmas until Dec 21st. Unlike most international schools, I am not on holiday's right now. We only got one day off for Christmas and [View Full Entry]

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Just a quick entry to wish everyone a merry christmas from China. I am very jealous of everyone that gets to have 2 weeks off right now. My christmas day has come and gone. I wish that everyone back home has as wonderful day as I did. I'll post tomorrow of my happenings for the past couple weeks. Miss you all. [View Full Entry]

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Nov 24 we headed to a little Chinese village with one of our new Chinese friends. This village is where the town he grew up in. It is about 2 hours away from Nanjing. We went there to meet his family, see the rice fields and see how small town Chinese people live. The most interesting part about this trip... the village he grew up in has never seen a white person before. After our long car ride we arrived in the city beside his village. Here we meet his Mom and her side of the family. They were all [View Full Entry]

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Summer Palace and Ming Tomb Pictures Great Wall Pictures Temple of Heaven Pictures Random Pictures The Summer Palace Pictures Link On Saturday, after we has our very westerni [View Full Entry]

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Tiananmen and Forbidden City Pictures We spent last weekend in the mighty city of Beijing. To get to Beijing we took an over night train. Trains are the way of the people in china and are always packed with people. Since there was three of us travelling and 4 beds in the cabin we has a roommate for the night. This guys was really nice. He is Indian and is working in China as a computer specialist. But the most interesting part about this guy is that his first job was doing tech support for Dell. It was crazy [View Full Entry]

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Hello Everyone, sorry for the delay in my post. It has been rather busy here at school. We have been in the middle of report card season. And to go along with it I have been sick for the past 3 weeks. Sports Meeting - I can run faster than you. Pictures found here So way back on the 23rd/24th of Oct our school had a sports meeting. (translated in to proper English a sports meet). The Canadian teachers were invited to attend the opening ceremonies of the meet. The opening was just like the opening of the oly [View Full Entry]

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