Jenny and I are finishing up one of the most exciting and challenging years of our lives! Over a year ago we decided to get rid (sell, donate, gift) of everything we did not love dearly, trim our bills to the minimum, and go live and work in another country for a year - we picked China. It took an extensive amount of planning, but the end result was we updated our passports, packed four suitcases, and flew to Shanghai without a job, without knowing a single person in the country, and without knowing a word of Mandardin or Cantonese. It was exhilarating and terrifying at the same time.

That was almost a year ago. Today we are finishing up our last week teaching English to 1,000 Chinese students per week at the #1 and #2 Sr. High Schools in our small town in southern China, Jiangsu province. We have kept our travels, and memories, fresh by blogging about our adventures here in TravelBlog and we hope you have enjoyed living our adventure with us.

We will back in sunny Tampa, Florida, on the 23rd of December and living in the states for another year while we save money and figure out where we will be going for our next adventure in 2011.

Feel free to write us and make comments and/or just say hello. We will ramp up another travel blog once we decided what country we are going to next...

Until then...

Cheers from China!

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