The Moon Over the City

Mid-Autumn Festival and Chengdu Panda Reservation

October 6th 2012
After only two weeks of work, we had our first holiday break. All of the students were out of school for a week for a combination of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday and China's birthday. I have some pictures from one of the traditions that are carried out on many holidays here in China: Lighting flying lanterns. Some of the lanters in the pictures are blurry because they were moving, it was ni ... read more

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Robert Tomlin Mayfield

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Hi, my name is Tommy. I arrived in China in August to start teaching English to non-English majors at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. I'm spending a year here with Dani who also has a travel blog at www.mytb.org/yelljones. We will both begin teaching at the University in September, and it is a very new experience for us. I will be teaching around 600 students every week, and I will only see each class once per week. We have a lot of material to cover, and we have been told that we are basically set up to fail. A fellow teacher told us that we should just teach our students how to b... full info

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