http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Lchayot/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Lchayot en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:29:52 BST Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:29:52 BST 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 helloooo back in china and missing the heat of the philippines thailand both were great and we had so much fun and there's soo much tell soo many pics to upload..but unfortunately i'm stuck in shanghai we landed in shanghai at about 1am Sat night and stayed at a hostel planning to get a bus to zhangjiagang on sunday. when i got to the bus station however i found out that that due to sno http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shanghai/blog-240595.html wow it's been a crazyy past week i'm gonna go backwards so..1 ..not sure what i last wrote on here about my plans for our 6 week vacation as it's changed a million times over the past few weeks but its finally set First I'm going with Alicia who teaches in Changzhou through ciee and her friend and her friend's 2 friends..so 5 of us total.. to the Phillippines for a week and from there Al http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-234306.html heysoo first of all i finally got a few pics of the noodle place and of one of the muslim restuarants i eat at about once a week..they're not such great pics cause i was trying to be discrete since there were people eating who probably wouldn't want me to take their picture lol but as soon as i figure out how to ask if i can take a pic and to tell them that i want to take pics to show you gu http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-231711.html ha. so i'll start with last week. on monday carol very vaguely mentioned that there would be some kind of dinner for foreign teachers that thursday... then on thursday i found out that it was actually just for foreigners living in zhangjiagang in general not just teachers and that we were to meet at the front gate and someone from the school would drive us to the hotel where the dinner was. we t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-230006.html so i'm back in the office soo annoying..not only do we not have the internet but we have no electricity they've been doing some insane work..like digging up tons of the sidewalk and stuff near our apt building and then today some guy accidently cut our wires it happened around 1230 right before I had to go teach so I just left thinking that by the time I got back they would have fixed i http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-228256.html hey..lots of fun this weekend started out with our bus ride around 530 to Changzhou. we've figured out how to read the bus tickets by now which is nice so we know we know exactly what to do and where to go..and there were only about 5 people on the bus besides us which was funny..and there was a funny chinese movie with english subtitles playing which was very exciting..except that they started http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Xuzhou/blog-226675.html so yesterday and today have been kind of crazy...we were originally going to visit tiffany and michelle in Xuzhou a few weeks ago but for whateevr reason it didn't work out..then we planned on going this weekend but last week they found out that they had some kind of competition that they had to judge..so they wouldn't really be able to hangout with us if we came. so we planned on going next week http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Zhangjiagang/blog-225603.html