Crowne Plaza City Centre Changsha

... Kysymykset olivat "Mitä pidät Kiinasta?" -tyyppisiä. Oppilaat olivat suloisia ja vähän ujoja, mutta hyvin eloisia ja äänekkäitä myöskin. <br><br>Koulu oli julkinen ja se näkyi luokkakoossa: Erikalla oli keskimäärin 50-60 oppilasta samassa luokassa. Kiinassa on suuri tarve englannin opettajista ja töitä löytäisi täältä helposti. Palkka ei tosin ole hääppöinen, mutta palkkaaan kuuluu oma asunto ja ja ...

... I am very proud. They listened well and gave great speeches.<br><br>The competition consisted of:<br><br>- 3 minute prepared speech on- "Culture Smart or Science Intelligent"<br><br>-Two questions about their speech.<br><br>-A 2 minute impromptu speech (i already forgot the topics, they each had different ones)<br><br>-Peace<br><br><br><br>

I have finally returned from a well needed break. The last nine days, I have been in Changsha and Shanghai. I went to Changsha for two nights and then Shanghai for seven. It has been a good adventure.<br><br>I went to Changsha to celebrate National Day with all of my fellow teachers. It was a huge day for the PRC and Changsha was wild. <br><br>Besides partying with everyone, not much was done. <br><br>Here are the few pictures from the nights in Changsha.<br>

This morning I woke up at 7am to try and watch my Gators play against Charleston Southern, but unfortunately for the first time my internet was down until 10am. I was only able to watch the last minute of the game. Also I had no running water until 12 b/c they are doing construction on the new gym and shut the ...

Last night was a great night, Michaela one of the world teach volunteers organized a potluck dinner and it was a huge hit. There were about 25 people that show up. I made penne pasta in vodka cream tomato sauce with pork meatballs. Everyone raved over how great my dish was but I'm not sure if ...

I have finished my first week of teaching and it went really great. Every class is so excited to see you and they all clap when you come in the classroom. I have a couple classes that are going to be a handful and I will have to be really strict with them. I have Fridays off and today I'm just ...

... communicate with them. I have to speak extremely slow and use hand motions and body language to get my point across. The senior 1 classes are great they can understand English pretty well, so you can accomplish a lot more with them. This week's lesson plan has been about rules, consequences, goals for the year, my intro, and a worksheet in which the students answer questions about ...

I am currently living and teaching at Hunan City University in Yiyang, Hunan, China. I am a teacher of Business English and an assistant football (soccer) coach. I arrived in China Aug 12th 2009 and I plan on staying until July 2010.<br><br>This is my rundown apartment. It is gross!!! The kitchen is tiny and absolutely filthy. The bedroom is not too bad, but everything is grimy. I have mad a lot of changes to it, but i have not taken any new pictures. I will do that soon. I start ...

Sorry everyone for the lack of posts lately. I have been extremely busy, orientation is finally over and last night I spent my first night in my new apartment. Its a great little space with a living room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and balcony. I will make sure to post daily. Pics in a bit. <br>

... little shopping, I only bought two things, ate lunch at McDonalds, for the simplicity ( I didn't want to order something off a menu I couldn't read and get something I didn't want to eat.) Then I orientated myself and found my way back to Jenny's apartment on foot. (about a 30 min walk I think). She got back from the hospital 10 minutes after I got back (she had given me her extra key so I could come back when I wanted.) We hung out in her apartment for awhile reminiscing about life ...