I spent my last day in zjg riding around on my bike, buying a few last min souvenirs & some flowers for the elementary school teachers, saying goodbye to all of my kids, and having dinner at our favorite restaurant, elbow, haha. I really can't believe I'm leaving, just so weird. Anyway, here's a picture tour of zjg on my last day. [View Full Entry]

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my last classes..gonna miss my crazy kids so much! [View Full Entry]

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ahh, only 7 days to go! so crazy, i really cannot believe it. not to be negative or anything, haha, but I just have to write to write about the craziness of the past week. first of all it was my last week of tutoring. I went to Hae Ji and Young Suh's on Monday and then to Jim and Lucy's. Hae Ji and Young Suh performed various musical instruments for me to video which was really cute, and Young suh asked his mom for her camera and took a bunch of videos and pics too, I'm gonna miss them so [View Full Entry]

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Hi again, two posts in one day! haha. The reason I even realized that I had never actually posted all of those pictures is that I went to get a massage today and wanted to tell you guys all about it! So, after talking about going to get a massage a bunch of times and never actually going, I finally went today. Flora told me the name of the place about 5 min away, and I took a cab there. I called Flora to figure out which building it actually was, and then noticed that they actually had a sign in [View Full Entry]

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hey, so i actually uploaded these like weeks ago..but then when I tried to look at all the pictures before I sent out the entry, I couldn't. Totally forgot about until now, and I still can't see any pics after the first page, but I'm redirected to some site in Chinese..so I'm guessing you'll be able to! Anyway, here are a bunch of pictures from the May school show, tutoring, and maybe some other random stuff! Also, check out my pic on the school's website, singing with my 2 backup dancers! LOL http://www.zjgfls.com/xinwen/ [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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hey, just letting you all know that we're all safe from the earthquake here in zhangjiagang. I actually found out about it on msn, around 4:30 yesterday after my classes. the article on msn said that it could be felt in shanghai which is strange because we are actually closer to the center of it, and felt nothing. of course, when i searched "china" in google news, google was then blocked from my computer for 10 minutes...crazy! Ciee also sent us email about it, but no one from the program is living in Sichuan, the province that was hit the worst. [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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here are some more ktv pics! just realized i actually could have just added them to the other post, but whatever. oh and here's the link to the videos too ktv video playlist tomorrow's may day so we don't have school :) think i'm just gonna do laundry and hangout and then go to wuxi on friday...we'll see. enjoy! [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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