2012 China Teaching Program

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'你好' nǐ hǎo

Hi all! I know this might be news to some, maybe most, but I’m on a 4-week trip to China this summer. It’s a program out of San Diego, CA, that has American teachers teaching elementary and middle school children at Nanjing Foreign Language School, a private school in Nanjing, China. There are 32 teachers in all from all over the U.S. It's quite an eclectic group. We met at LAX on Monday, June 25^th. More about that later. The flight left at 1:35 a.m.; yes, that’s in the morning, getting to Hong Kong by 7 a.m., a total of 15 hours. From Hong Kong we took a flight to Shanghai (2 hours) where we hopped on a bus to the Holiday Inn Express hotel. The jet lag wasn't too bad. After we had some down time, we did some shopping, visited a silk shop where they showed us how silk thread is made, and later took a boat tour to see the Shanghai skyline during the evening. More later.

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Photos

Teacher group photo
This is the group at the Nanjing Foreign Language School five days after arriving in China

Shanghai skyline
pretty hot and humid the two days we were there