Blogs from Nanchang, Jiangxi, China, Asia - page 3

Happy New Year everyone! Ok, so Christmas and New Year's has come and gone, both in their special way. I certainly didn't spend them in a traditional way, but they also weren't spent angsting over what I couldn't do or who I couldn't see. For Christmas, I actually spent that day and the days before struggling though various blackouts of electricity and, of course, no water. Having no power sucks. Having no power when it's almost freezing out sucks even more. Thankfully on Christmas Eve I was blessed to have a wonderful party to attend which got me out of my apartment from 7pm to 1am. A friend of mine, Esmeralda, had been planning this party since the beginning of the month and it definitely showed. I had helped a little bit with decorating her apartment, ... read more

I finally got to hang out with my students today! They've invited me out before "to play", but I've usually been busy with volunteer work or travelling. So today we took a short trip out to the nearby mountains to go hiking. I wasn't sure what to expect since most of my students English is mid level at best, but all of them tried to include me in conversations or whatever activity we were currently doing. What really impacted me though was their level of giving. I've heard about it from other teachers and foreigners, but this is the first time I've experienced it to such extremes. First it was the food. My students kept trying to give me food from when they first saw me in the morning all the way up to when we ... read more

I'm so sorry! I've neglected my blog much more than I meant to. >_... read more

Not much to report, but I did want to show off some pictures I took. On Wed, I walked to school that's down the road a bit to take some pictures. The school teaches metal working and they have these enourmous statues all over their campus. I was actually afraid to go in at first because it didn't seem like a place you could just wander around, but a took a chance and approached the gate to pop in for a bit. The gaurds were pretty confused as to why I was there, but I showed them my camera and made motions of taking pictures. They still didn't seem like they knew what I wanted, but I just wandered around within sight of them and then thanked them on the way out. Also, on one of ... read more

So I've almost been here a total of 4 weeks come this Saturday. It certainly doesn't feel like it. When I first got here I felt like time would never go by quickly. Everthing seemed to slow down and take forever, but now that I have a routine it feels like next year will be here before I know it. Right now I'm planning for Halloween though I don't think it'll be anything spectacular. I just want to give my students a taste of what we do and maybe show a movie during English corner the Thursday before. For Thanksgiving I'm not sure what we'll be doing. I don't think any time is given off, but I think the Cherians might celebrate and I'm sure I'll get to crash whatever they're doing. : ) So I ... read more