Posts Tagged “China”
Sunday, July 18 Today we spent the afternoon at an attraction called Splendid China/China Folk Culture Villages. (see here) It’s a cross between Epcot Center, Colonial Williamsburg, and China. The Folk Culture Villages has buildings and people in costumes from different ethnic groups around China. Ostensibly, it’s a cultural preservation attempt. Unfortunately, the bulk of […]
Yesterday, Beth ended a meeting, and as everyone was starting to walk out, she said, “Oh, oh, wait! I almost forgot to tell you one more thing. A typhoon is coming, probably this weekend.” When pressed for more details, she said we should probably stay inside when it happens. If it happened on a weekday, […]
Found this awesome picture book in the school library today. I sort of feel like it looks familiar–maybe just because I like it so much! If anyone does know this book in English, please let me know.
First, it’s hot and humid. Really hot, and really humid. There’s a two-hour break in the middle of each day so no one has to do anything in the middle of the day. Businesses are still open well past 9pm so people can eat and shop after the sun has gone down. Grown men walk […]
Gratuitous cute. This entry has almost nothing to do with China, except that my roommate takes more (and probably better) pictures than me, so I am starting to raid her iPhoto library. This one was taken just before we came to China. She says the baby elephants at the Wild Animal Park are not to […]
You know how those oddly translated menus at Chinese restaurants make you giggle? Being surrounded by Chinese signs with English translations (well, if we’re lucky, they’re translated) provides many opportunities for such mirth! However, we do have to be careful! Patti recently told me she’d found the oddest sign at school and was wondering what […]
Sunday, July 11, 2010 Shenzhen, China We have received many hour-by-hour schedules of our activities. We keep receiving them because they keep changing. Often, they change before we get a new schedule. This morning at 8:30, we gathered in the lobby to get on our bus to go to a tea ceremony. At 8:40, with […]
This post pretty much skips the first week I have been in China, but I figure I need to start getting something on here. I will try to point out when things are out of order. On Saturday morning, we went to our school to get our classrooms ready. Unfortunately, our materials were not available […]