So the internet's been down again and therefore I haven't been able to write in awhile. For some reason only skype works, which I guess is good..but we can't look at any websites..the computer guys have been working on it though so eventually we should be able to get online, for now though its back to the internet cafe, lol. so anyway, the latest news.. Flora called us Sunday morning and asked us if we wanted to meet her for lunch, and then she'd take us to setup our cellphones and to the wholesale flea market place. She met us at [View Full Entry]

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A few updates before a million more things happen and I forget about these.. On Wed. we went to the police station to register so they can give us our resident permits..overally it was fine and didn't take too long except that they didn't accept the form filled out in blue pen so Steve & Fabrice had to re-do their whole thing..and then both of their passport pics that we had to give them weren't acceptable for whatever reason so they had to pay to have them taken there.. Earlier in the week, a Chinese lady named Flora called Drew's room [View Full Entry]

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After my last class yesterday around 4:00, I got back to the room and decided that it was really rediculous that we had to go down the street to the internet cafe and buy something even just to check our email or quickly look up something especially when there are tons of computers on the school's campus. So, I called Carol and asked her if there was a computer somewhere I could use to get online for a little while. She said that she'd have the computer teachers come look at the problem, and surprisingly he actually showed up knocking on [View Full Entry]

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Wow, so our internet really isn't working at all now and a million things have happened in the last few days that wanted to write about..and of course can't remember at now, lol..but I'll try. Well, on Friday after eating dinner at "our" restaurant where we ate either lunch or dinner each day last week, and hanging out here, at the internet cafe for awhile..we went out to find the bar where all the foreigners hangout. With the help of facebook (some guy saw that I was coming to teach here and wrote to me that that where they usually hangout) [View Full Entry]

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Hello from China everyone! The internet isn’t really working well, and I can only get online when I’m sitting at the desk so I’m going to try writing this in word and then pasting into a blog...we’ll see how this works. Anyway, I’ve been in Zhanjiagang for about 3 days now and overall it’s pretty nice. There are 4 of us teaching at this school through CIEE, me, Candice, Steve, and Drew. Carol, our waiban, the lady that’s in charge of the foreign teachers, picked us up from the hotel in Shanghai where we were for the week. It was about [View Full Entry]

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CIEE orientation in Shanghai! [View Full Entry]

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