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                    <title>Good to be Home. So Grateful for the Experience.</title>
                    <description>A quick recap of our final two days and travels homeSaturday morning was the closing ceremony. It was a wonderful celebration of the students39 hard work and progress as well as the Feng TaiJenison partnership. Seeing the parents beaming with pride as their children read recited and sang in English was incredibly gratifying. There were also performances by both a young Beijing Opera perfor</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Feng-Tai-District/blog-735920.html</link>
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                    <title>'Wild Things' in Feng Tai</title>
                    <description>It is hard to believe that tomorrow morning will bring the closing ceremony and bittersweet end to our journey here in China.The last few days have flown by They have included a great deal of teaching as well as some unforgettable outings with our students. Monday we visited the Great Wall which was both a breathtaking and surreal experience. We even ate lunch sitting atop one of the many lookou</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Feng-Tai-District/blog-734735.html</link>
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                    <title>Impact</title>
                    <description>We have been teaching our wonderful students for seven days and the word that continues to come to mind is impact. This experience is having a tremendous impact on all those involved students and the teachers of both Jenison and Feng Tai.I would not have guessed a week ago how much our students would improve in their written and oral English in this short time. We39ve been teaching them for o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Feng-Tai-District/blog-734003.html</link>
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                    <title>Paparazzi in the Palace</title>
                    <description>A big thank you to Crystal 39Head Master39 Morse for guest blogging about our trip to the Summer Palace.The next leg of our adventure took place yesterday at the Summer Palace which was built in 1750 at the direction of the Qing Emperor Qianlong. Our students were thrilled to see us as we joined them on the bus. What a feeling to be showered with adoration. The charter bus took us out of th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Summer-Palace/blog-733342.html</link>
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                    <title>Let the teaching begin</title>
                    <description>With introductions complete we are now ready to dive in to what we came here to do teach A major component of this trip is to bring western teaching methodology to Feng Tai First. While this school is very successful the strongest in its district they are very transparent about wanting to learn our teaching methods. In particular those related to active student engagement which is a focus in </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Feng-Tai-District/blog-732849.html</link>
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                    <title>Opening Ceremony</title>
                    <description>We arrived Tuesday morning at Feng Tai First where we greeted the children who were to be our students for the next two weeks. The students were surprised when all five of us immediately approached them and began talking and interacting with them. This is not a common teacherstudent dynamic in China. The students were very eager to try and communicate with us but in no time at all we became acut</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Feng-Tai-District/blog-732834.html</link>
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                    <title>Feng Tai Deep Fried Bacon  Forbidden City</title>
                    <description>Our first full day in Beijing has been amazing We started our morning visiting Feng Tai First school. After months of planning and Skype meetings it was wonderful to at last see the school in person and meet the teachers and Principal Yin. We had a great team meeting working through final preparations. Opening ceremonies are tomorrow morning and will commence the two week Fine Arts Camp.After a t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Feng-Tai-District/blog-732463.html</link>
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                    <title>Rebekah Redemer Guest Blogger on Feng Tai  Jenison Partnership</title>
                    <description>The Journey Begins Who would have imagined Jenison teachers planning and executing a Fine Arts Camp in Beijing China  It all started with a phone call in the summer of 2011.  A Jenison alumni contacted the offices of Jenison International Academy JIA inquiring about our school for a friend that lives in Beijing.  This began the journey. What started as a personal inquiry proved to be muc</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Michigan/Grand-Rapids/blog-732238.html</link>
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                    <title>Ni Hao Beijing</title>
                    <description>We arrived safely this afternoon around 4pm local time 12 hours ahead of EST. The flights went really well but after 13 hours on the plane we were very happy to be back on the groundSome of you may have heard about the terential rains Beijing experienced yesterday. Luckily the flooding has already subsided and aside from a two hour delay in Chicago the aircraft was delayed from Beijing our </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Chaoyang-district/blog-732029.html</link>
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                    <title>Two days and counting...</title>
                    <description>Four teachers a principal and one incredible journey. Making final preparations for our trip to China I don39t think any of us can believe our departure date is so quickly approaching In just two days our team from Jenison Public Schools in Jenison MI will leave for Fengtai China part of greater Beijing. Here we will be teaching a fine arts camp to 28 fourth through sixth grade students</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Michigan/Grand-Rapids/blog-731415.html</link>
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