A few hours on a bus from Hangzhou to Huanshan sounded peaceful enough...wrong! Honking, swerving, sliding, perilous close calls...we were a wreck by the time we got to Tangkou, but hey, the scenery was beautiful..:)
Huang Shan (Yellow Mountain) Part 1... June 14th 2009
Hello Everyone! This is Jennifer again, and we are back from over a week of vacation as our students were taking the College Entrance Test (the Gao Kao). I know it has been a long time since I have written. I am still angry about the other blog website access being “taken” away from us, www.blogger.com, so part of my absence has been some sort of rebellion at having to start up again on ... read more
Asia » China » Anhui » Huangshan For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more
Jennifer Bevan and I have been back in the states for awhile now, we decided to part ways near the end of 2011. We both still live in Tampa, Florida and keep in touch with many of the Chinese students we taught and befriended during our year in DanYang in 2009.
This blog takes place throughout all of 2009. We ended up teaching English to 1,000 Chinese students per week at the #1 and #2 Sr. High Schools in a small town in Southern China, Jiangsu province. We have kept our travels, and memories, fresh by blogging about our adventures here in TravelBlog and we hope you have enjoyed living our ... full info