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Changsha Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Changsha, China
Talk, Chat, Converse, Speak: English & Chinese
... one make me feel like I am absolutely in the right place right now. I know I've said so before but I think that being here in China, teaching English is exactly right for me at this point. I'm find that I care a lot about students' interest-- and I care a ...
trein + changsha
Vandaag worden we opgehaald door onze school. Mijn kamergenoot, een Amerikaan genaamd Jan, is al vertrokken. Met degene die later vertrekken, zal ik eerst nog lunchen, waarna ook wij op weg gaan. Huaihua is meer dan 5 uur met de bus/auto. Max, een ...
Changsha lørdag 7/4
I dag har vi ikke hatt noe ferdig opplegg og har hatt dagen for oss selv. Var på YueLu Academy og det var nesten enda finere der enn jeg kunne huske. Mye folk men ganske fredelig rundt selve bygningene. Spiste ved gågata og gikk hele veien ...
Regen
Das schlimmste, das einem hier anscheinend passieren kann, ist den Regenschirm zu vergessen. Ich liebe Regen und das noch viel mehr nach solch warmen Tagen wie wir sie gerade haben. Dann läuft einem die warme Brühe so schön übers Gesicht – ...
Adventures in Shanghai (besides Expo) *1
... to the Bund, the Jin Mao Tower, etc. Shanghai's Old Town's appearance is what one would expect to see in China-- traditionally designed buildings, loads of people all trying to squeeze down the same narrow road, a variety of delicious smelling (though ...
Heimishan
... ganzen Nebel ebenfalls etwas magisches an sich hatte. Ehrlich gesagt war mir unklar, dass man für Natur gar nicht weit aus Changsha herausgehen musste. Ein Glück hatten wir alle genug Fressalien dabei, sodass wir auf dem Rückweg fröhlich mampfend ein ...
Eine Autofahrt, die ist lustig...
Direkt nach meiner kleinen Bergwanderung war ich noch mit Franzi in Zhuzhou verabredet und bin mit einer Fahrgemeinschaft in der Nähe meiner Wohnung aufgebrochen. Ich habe mir nicht viel dabei gedacht, dass der liebe Fahrer im dichten Feierabendverkehr ...
Just Another Awkward Sunday
... and walk to the bus stop. In my rush, I didn't want to wait for the bus that I knew would definitely get us to Changsha Social Work College so I decided that we could probably take 124, as I suspected many buses passed by this school. It didn't. It made ...
Another Authoritative Fail
Today in one of my classes, before I even began my lesson, two boys were fighting in the back. They were yelling at each other and when I shouted at them and went over, I found that they were arguing about a t-shirt. They were both holding on to it ...
Changsha, China
... from abroad) and asked her if she could call and see if she could get the phone numbers and or address for Jenny or the Office in Changsha China. Of course she was happy to help, and I told her I would call her back in a little while to see if she had ...
hot city, but cool city?
hello everyone i am now in a place called changsha which is the capital city of the same provence as where chaiman miao was born and lived if you dont know who he is, he was the original leader of the comunist party i had some trouble finding the ...
A couple of days in Changsha
Monday at noon. KLP here. Since we landed we've kept ourselves pretty busy exploring and getting to know Changsha. When we got to the hotel after the many, many hours of flying, we were hungry of course, it was after midnight ...
Changsha once more
... a long time now because Phil Thomas (of the organisation I came through) gave me her email address before I came to China. She is teaching in the Changsha county so I had suggested we meet. When I rang her off Mary’s phone she told me ...
Light travels faster than sound
Hey, I just taught two classes today so it wasn't an overly packed schedule. In the late afternoon the angels started crying…we had really bad thunderstorms and lightening for about an hour and everything got flooded! It was so ...
Clubbing in Changsha City
... perform for our closing ceremony. The kids loved our Shakira dancing and went crazy. We left around midday to go to Changsha City. After a coach journey, a bus journey and plenty of walking around in the sweltering heat around the city with our luggage, ...
Then They Moved to Holland
... from students in a country where being gay was only recently not considered a disease. It was also a hilarious moment though when they associated Holland with gay marriage. China may be a land too fond of stereotypes, but damn can it be funny ...
Geliebtes Internet
... , kann ich endlich einmal... nichts tun! Update: Meine Adresse war tatsächlich richtig, dafür war die Dame von China Telecom zu dämlich, meine Telefonnummer von einer Karte richtig abzuschreiben. Der Installateur kam dann extra vorbei, um meinen ...
Daylate, and pictureless.
At some point I'll have to come back and update this with pictures, I'm mostly making this update now, so that my map will be updated, so I can have a reference point to share about. There's no internet in my apartment yet, so I'm at the school, using ...
Day 3: ABC order, Lies, "Normal" class
Day 3. Today wasn't particularly good or bad. I taught a "normal" class for the first time. I'm not sure how many students there were-- close to 60. Surprisingly though, they were not really too bad. They listened better than class #129-- that dreaded ...
The water sprinkling festival
Hey, I had to teach my final class today. It was a pretty relaxed lesson and I let the kids watch Mr Bean for half of it. They were in stitches…they found it hilarious. At the end of the lesson I stood up to dismiss the class and half of them were ...
1st Saturday Night Out
... invited us for dinner and we all went out. The restaurant was pretty fancy and the cuisine was from the Northwest region of China. It has a middle eastern influence so most of the dishes used cumin. Their were skewers of meat and jasmine tea. After ...
Christmas Party Banquet
Christmas is on the way, are you ready for the banquet? And do you prepare your dress for the party already. Finding the perfect Christmas party dress can be stressful with so many styles to choose from. Consider the occasion's level of formality and ...
Surprises on Moon Cake Day
... the right bus and maybe it wouldn't be so crowded. We got on this bus and were pretty packed in there. 1.4 billion people in China. It's incredible how a population of this size effects everything. So we rode this bus for a while, holding on to the rails, ...
Halloween party
... Orange Island with Mary, John and Donna. That’s the long island in the middle of the river that runs through Changsha. It’s a nice place and yes they have orange trees there. I didn’t realise how much walking ...
Tesol training and Party time in Changsha
... to go to a kareoke bar that is real popular out here but after realising it was rubbish we decided we would go it to Changsha town. I hailed down a taxt and me, Hugo, Chris, Craig and Freya pilled in. The taxi driver wasnt happy about having an ...
First day of teaching
Yesterday was the first day of teaching. I am not at my site yet but we are teaching summer school at our orientation school. Its pretty hectic and we have all boys in the classroom except for 3 girls. I had to give a verbal warning and also move a kid ...
A Merry Chinese Christmas
... fun night out though it was odd to be going clubbing through necessity. We went to club 97 then Milky with the usual Changsha clubbing group. I think we headed back around 5.30 when Milky closed. The funny thing was that Mary got back to ...
Changsha
Another huge city! Arrived very late at night after navigating our way out of Guangzhou. Was a bit of challenge directing a taxi driver who didn't understand a word of English somewhere we had no idea!! Found our way eventually. We were greeted the next ...