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I hope to catch up soon from the last few days. We’ve been on an awesome vacation in Yangshuo with patchy internet. Going back to Shenzhen tonight and to Hong Kong tomorrow.
I seem to have very little control over placing the pictures in my blog posts.
July 28, 2010 Thank you to everyone who sent birthday wishes! I appreciate it so much! It is so great to have little notes from home while I am here. I am not much of a “It’s My Birthday!” person. I just mentioned it to my roommate, and I was surprised when a few other […]
We are supposed to be modeling American educational methods as we teach at this school. However, this is a little problematic because our group has no clear idea of which American teaching methods in particular we are supposed to be doing, except for thematic units. But our 20 teachers (including some who have not taught […]
Saturday, July 24 *pictures coming some time from Susan’s camera Today was a lovely day. I tried to sleep in, but couldn’t, so I just lay in bed pretending to be asleep for as long as I could stand it. Several of us had planned to go to the Fairy Lake Botanical Gardens, about an […]
Update
By admin | July 25, 2010
I have added some pictures to “The Real China.” I used Patti’s camera to photograph my scrolls when she got back from her visit. Check it out.
Sunday, July 25 Yesterday was a fun day touring, which I intend to finish writing about quite soon, but today I had the most amazing experience! From school, it was arranged for us to go on a visit to the home of one of our students. Families got to choose which teacher to invite. I […]
No!
By admin | July 21, 2010
Ahhhhh….
By admin | July 21, 2010
So one thing that is awesome about China is massages. Imagine the density of tattoo places in PB, and that is about the same as the number of spas near us. One we like has the slogan “Pedicure Preventative Health Palace.” I don’t know if they’ll actually paint your toenails, but they will pound your […]
I just got back from my first yoga class in China. I love to go to yoga classes when I travel, but til now I have just been doing a little flow or small amount of acro training in my room while getting used to our schedule and the area. Tonight I ventured out to […]
