soo, once again i haven't written in awhile..things here have been pretty routine though..aside from the fact that we now have internet in our apt. which is amazing!! of course now that i don't have to plan to go to the office to put up pics and stuff..i'm just lazy and never do, lol. anyway, my students have been pretty crazy as usual, lol..but i think i'm starting to be able to control them a bit more and figure out things that they'll actually do..or at least i'm getting used their craziness, lol. I've also finally gotten to know some of [View Full Entry]

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hello..haven't written on here for awhile so i should have lots of stories, but of course i forget most of them....haha, anyway we went to Wuxi with Fun Shi Ja last weekend which was fun. She told us that she was gonna drive us there, but it actually turned out that her parents drove us, and then they visited her aunt who lives there while we shopped. Neither of them really speak any English so we weren't able to really talk to them wish is kind of a shame, but it was cool to meet them anyway. It was about an [View Full Entry]

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hey, soo wednesday was a lot of fun..first me, drew, and fabrice went to the EF teachers halloween party down the street. we stopped on the way and picked up some random cracker-cookie type things to bring and then took a cab like a 30 sec. ride to the apt building, lol (we didn't know it was that close, lol). it was raining and cold out, and the party was a bbq outside, haha, but there was a roof so it was ok. all the EF teachers were there, i think about 9 of them, which was cool. they're all really [View Full Entry]

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hey..so, first of all I just came into the office..and there's a teacher and like 11th grade kid having a mtg in here or something, lol. The teachers talking a lot though and then the kid's just kind of looking at the floor and mumbleing something every few min..so I'm guessing he's in trouble..not really sure though, lol. Its pretty weird thoiugh cause Candice was already in here when I got here..but I guess they figure we can't undertstand anyway which is true... ok, so on Fri me and Drew went to Malone's and hung out with Flora which was fun...she [View Full Entry]

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its been kind of hard to find time to actually sit down and write a whole entry and put up pics/videos so even though i just uploaded an entry i actually wrote that yesterday in the afternoon and couldn't put up the pics until today.. so, here are a few more updates and a few more pics/videos from yesterday. 1. i figured out that i can buy bread and rolls at the cake store across the street, and on Sun. I found peanut butter & jelly at Da Ren Fa (our walmart)..so yesterday i had peanut butter & jelly for lunch! [View Full Entry]

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So..everyone wants to know how the singing went on Sat, lol..it was ok. Not so much to tell about really though. We went over to the stage area outside around 9am and all of the kids in the whole school were carrying out chairs from their classroom to sit on. The primary classes each have a class set of plastics stools which are light..but the older kids carried out their metal chairs from all over the school campus, lol. We went over to the stage to find the music teacher who had given us the song to sing, but he was [View Full Entry]

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it's been awhile since I wrote on here last.. so the main updates are: 1.Steve got sick over our National Day vacation, and had to go to the hospital in Shanghai. He was there for 2 weeks, and may have had appendicitis but its kind of unclear..and now he has to go home to recover, and will come back at the begininning of Dec. 2. Saturday is the school's 10th anniversary, so there will be a celebration thing all day. We (Candice, Drew, and me) have to sing a song in Chinese for it, so that should be pretty hilarious, lol. [View Full Entry]

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So since I wasn't able to get online in the week before Nanjing..I have many updates which by now are already old, haha..but here they are anyway.. Monday morning I woke up and my left eye was swollen almost shut. I wasn't that surprised because I've been waking up with one of my eyes swollen every few days, and then the swelling goes down by the evening. I've been thinking about what it could possibly be and the only thing I could think of is that its from a mosquito bite on my eye (since i have a ton of bites) [View Full Entry]

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here are some more pics! [View Full Entry]

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Great time in Nanjing! Candice and I got the bus at 9:30 Tues. morning, and were in a random dirt parking lot in Nanjing by 12:00. Not sure where we were or if we'd be able to get an actual taxi, we got into an unofficial taxi and I showed them the address of the hostel that I had Sharon (one of the chinese english teachers) write for me in Chinese. As usual in China (well at least in large cities) the cab driver and his friend who sat up front, had no idea where the hostel was..so they asked me [View Full Entry]

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