#34 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (Taizhou: Home of Beijing-Opera Star, Mei Lan Fang) June 18th 2006 Taizhou City is hot and humid this June, with temperatures of over 36 degrees Celcius, deep and sweltering 95+ Fahrenheit. Though the topography is flat, as in Florida, the sun is rarely visible; late-afternoon as a small gold-red ball through the haze from my balcony, making me appreciate the "Miami blue and green tropics".
After loosing myself for hours in the city, my A/C and apartment of ... read more
Asia » China » Jiangsu » Taizhou 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
After 38 years as a Foreign Language Teacher and Foreign Language Dept. Chair at Coral Gables Sr. H.S., and A.J. Professor of German at the University of Miami, I have left Florida in June of 2006, where my home is in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. I have just signed another year's teaching-contract (my 8th year now) with Taizhou University in the city of Taizhou, located about 3hrs north of Shanghai, in Jiangsu Province, CHINA.
I thought it would be informative for others and rewarding for me personally, to log the progress of my efforts from beginning to end, as a Travel and Photo Jo... full info