I do not know why I was so tardy reading this blog entry.....but it still sounds like you are leading an intrigueing and challenging life! Enjoy.......Bruce
Sounds like another fun and challenging year ahead......enjoy! We will continue to fill the world with endless supplies of candles and little chistmas thingies........cc to Carole and Betty.......Love&Peace
It sounds like you're going to have a marvellous year. You deserve it-you worked very hard last year. I start back on Monday and will retire at the end of the year. My new class is 'lovely' according to their last teacher so my final year should be as joyous as your next year! Good luck and 'high five'!
Great news! Gosh, how PLEASING! Mazz and I are just so pleased that you're happy and doing so well! (She's packing to go back to college today) It really looks like you've found a niche that fits you beautifully, hon.
none i'll never notice the air probloms if u don't mention it here, I've been someother places close to the ocean. they r much better. Wuhan's my homwtown, so sad to see the city goes like this. and Sorry for what the city's done to you
Sad not seeing you So happy for you in the choices you've made. How exciting to have these opportunities.. I do have to say that your family will miss you alot this summer so you will have to keep up with your blog as it is our way of feeling connected. We are trying to encourage your mom to take a trip to see you. She really deserves it. Mom I hope your listening.........
The entire country seems ecstatic and energized with the inauguration of Orrack Obama.........we are hoping for the best.....(it is just too bad that our 'neighbor' tunred out to be the least popular president in 50+years)
It sounds like you are having the GREATEST time!!! It is just boring old winter here in Maine.....Miss ya' and wish you well......cc to Betty and Carole
Those seagulls must have reminded you of Maine! I am down in Venice,FL after driving my mom down here for the winter.......I see several different kinds of seagulls on the beach here.....some are 'Maine' seagulls but some are ones I have never seen in Maine!
Do it, do it, do it! I suspect, sweetie, that the Vietnamese, especially if you go into the southern part, will be pretty good at English. Vietnam was featured recently on a TV programme, and it looks stunning - and they were all very friendly (well, they would be, with a film crew on hand!). The Top Gear guys ended up in a breathtakingly beautiful place, on the coast in the north-east corner - in the Haiphong area - full of little islands of most fantastical shapes in great calm bays. I hope you love wherever you go, but the coast looks the most interesting!
Kumming I just reread your post...There may be a Vietamese visa ( consulate?) office in Kumming also. I am not 100 % positive on this point. If there is one there then you probably will not need to rush your visa application. Good luck!
Visa for vietnam There is a Vietamese visa (consulate?) office in Nanning. It is on Minzu Da Dao just past the Nanhu Lu bridge. I think it take 1 to 4 days to get the visa. For a 1 day. visa, get there early and pay extra money. Two ways to get to Vietnam from Nanning is by train or by bus. Another way is to get to Hanoi indirectly may to go there Via Ha long Bay, Vietnam. Happpy New Years.
Glad you had a good time over Christmas!
The flea market sounds a bit like something they have in Amsterdam on Queen's Day - kids put out a blanket on the street and put all the stuff they want to sell on it, though of course there it's just a yearly thing and doesn't have the bonus of language-learning...
Glad to hear you finished up the 'year' on such a positive note.....I hope your travel plans work out to your satisfaction.....Cheers for 2009!!!! (cc to Betty and Carole....who, of course, could log on themselves but do not seem to spend as much time on a computer as I do.....When I hand them your blog printed they really enjoy reading it!!!!)
Christmas in a far land... I bet that school and country are equally happy that you chose them! The flea markets sound wonderful fun. I think there's a breakthrough in learning a foreign language at school, when you get a chance to use it with someone who isn't your teacher or classmate, and you realise that yes, you CAN communicate with other people using this strange arrangement of sounds! You're doing wonders helping those children make this breakthrough, honey.
You may find getting a visa for Vietnam a tad slow, or complicated - I don't really know - but whatever you do in the way of travelling, I hope it'll be interesting, comfortable, and very good fun.
Christmas in a far foreign land. Wow, that class sounds like a really exciting group of very inventive children! How wonderful to be teaching them.
I hope the oral tests go well, sweetie, and that you do something exciting with your five weeks. Perhaps head southward for some sun, seaside, and relaxation, where enough people speak English that you can really unwind ? Hong Kong is good, if a bit expensive, but what about a quiet little place?
Big hugs. Wish I could send you a huge box of American Christmas goodies to share!
Personally I'd say go for the Chinese class. The better I know the local language the more confident and safer I feel living and working in a foreign country. The rule of thumb I use is I need to know enough vocabulary that in an emergency I could explain simply what happened to the police or doctor by myself. Not to mention getting a formal education on the language would make you more marketable when you got back to the States.
I'm a twenty-four year old woman, teaching English at Wuchang Experimental Primary School, in Wuhan, China. I've been living in China for a little over a year so far, and I still love it. Here you can find my (very sporadically updated) adventures living and traveling around China.... full info
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I do not know why I was so tardy reading this blog entry.....but it still sounds like you are leading an intrigueing and challenging life! Enjoy.......Bruce