Our host, Victor, could not make the trip so Frank Shi, the head Chinese English teacher at my school, volunteered to come and supervise along with the other teachers...
Class Trip with the English Club... May 24th 2009 Along with the sixteen classes I teach each week here at my high school (55 kids per class = around 960 kids), I agreed to also teach an additional two classes on Wednesday afternoons for a group of bright, motivated kids for an English Club (EC). They asked Jenny to help me (thankfully!) so we both get together and teach thirty-two of the top English speaking students at my school and we really e ... read more
Asia » China » Jiangsu » Danyang 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