http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Lchayot/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Lchayot en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:14:17 +0000 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:14:17 +0000 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. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-357979.html my last classes..gonna miss my crazy kids so much http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-357765.html here's a selection of pics from the philippines http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/blog-357640.html a selection of pics from bangkok http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-357679.html the beautiful island of ko samet http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Ko-Samet/blog-357741.html stop number three shenzhen http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guangdong/Shenzhen/blog-357755.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-286059.html 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 F http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/blog-282491.html 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 r http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-278315.html 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 schoolwide ceremony outside w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-277912.html 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 430 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-275646.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-274456.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-271430.html 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 whe http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-269278.html Back from Beijing We had a great time and really saw just about everythinghere's a quick overview... we got the train from wuxi on friday night at 830. some korean guys asked us to switch rooms so they could all be together and then to thank us they gave us peanuts and beer haha. our roomates on the train were an english teacher and her husband they were both really nice and we took lots of http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-265348.html it's been a while everything here is good though and I finally have a some pics and videos to upload my kids are all still crazy as usual as you can see from the pics lol but i have managed to get them to participate in hosting flat stanely and in a postcard exchange which are both working out well I rewrote the flat stanely story for my 4th grade classes so they were able to understand http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-262009.html heyyso not much has been new since we got back to school..my kids quickly got back into their normal routine of being absolutely insane lol but whatever..haha. today one of the 2nd grade classes was so crazy when we were trying to play a game that i ended up just stopping the game to play simon says so they could move around and then teach them a song. but they wouldn't even get quiet enoug http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-252587.html ..and we're back to schoolwe started teaching again on wed so it's only been 2 days so far but its actually going surprisingly well haha.I think that a big part of it is that i'm actually expecting the kids to be crazy now and i'm pretty used to just going with the flow which is good. While the kids are definitely still off the walls I've been trying to get them to discuss what they did over http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-248642.html that's happy new year in chinese the actual new year's day was a week ago now..but the holiday is still being celebrated here. well not even celebrated really..everything is just closed haha its getting a little annoying if you can't tell.. as of last wed on the 6th everything here has been closed. all restaurants and stores besides the big chains like rtmart and kfc and thank god our su http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-245767.html finally made it back ..well actually i've been back for 3 days now but haven't gotten around to writing on here cause its freeezing in the room of my apt that has internet lol. i got a space heater today though and i have it right next to me so i can finally bear to sit in this room for more than 5 min haha. k so the trip was amazing everything was a little last minute and there were a m http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-241713.html