Hengshui Sun Shine Hotel Shijiazhuang

After meeting up with the other english teachers arriving at the beijing International Airport. We took a 6 hour busride to Shijiazhuang. This city is the sister city to Des Moines, IA and although it is nearly unheard of in the US it has a population greater than US cities like Chicago.
We arrived around 11:00 at night and checked into the university. Luke and I went outside looking around as opposed to ...

... Mr. Fu drops us off at the northern part of Shijiazhuang. We need to take a taxi to the north-western part where the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan expressway is. After getting stuck in traffic for nearly an hour we arrive at a reststop on the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan expressway. It's now dark and the only vehicles at the reststop are trucks. There's quite a few truck drivers eating at the restaurant at the reststop. We walk in, everyone stares at us, we smile and sits ...

... words
I chose- none of which went together very easily so I received some pretty
creative stories.

*Field Day/Relays outside- We met in the classroom- I drew
pictures on the board and explained “Run backwards race, 3-legged race,
piggyback ride race, and wheel barrel race” –Gave away the medals my mom sent
from home (mine and my brother’s soccer, cheerleading, basketball, golf awards)
Since all the students ...

Peanut Butter and Jelly Day :) *We decided to bring a little taste of the West to our Middle School by making over a thousand peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and distributing them during the students lunch time. It was crazy! We had Willie and our friend John controlling the crowd and Kara and I handed out sandwiches. It was a lot of fun until we got in trouble by the school because theres a rule against it.. even though we told them all about what we were going to do.. ehh ...

... in Shijiazhuang. No one could have predicted that this small, unknown village would have developed rapidly into the modern capital city of Hebei Province. Lhasa China Travel Beijing China Travel China Hotels China Highlights China Tours Though it is a relatively young city, it is located ...

... vocabulary, math, songs, games. It's a good time. Our military friends all had to go back to their countries. It was a sad goodbye. We hung out with them all the time. Going out isn't going to be the same without them. We haven't actually been out out since they left- mostly because we're working so much that we're just too tired. But we have a lot of fun events coming up so we'll have time to party then. Mallory and ...

... bring you gifts and he might eventually propose. She said he proposed to a few girls last year- whoa. Since she had told me this, I told Robert that I wanted to stay on my street for lunch- i had to be back soon for class anyway so i had a good excuse, ha. he asked some pretty personal questions so i think next time he calls i'm only going to agree to meet for lessons and not lunch. Saturday night we were invited to go to a very special ...

... trend in china) a Chinese boy and his mother approached our group and started to speak with us. The boy, who's name was James, spoke better English than myself! We talked to them both for a while until we were finally allowed to board the bus. Little did we know that the rest of the day he was going to follow us around and take NON-STOP! This kid was actually pretty funny though because of the ...

... my nintendo ds and all of a sudden my lights starting flickering and the air conditioner went out. so then i went to tell kara and willie to unplug their things and as i walked out to the hall the hall light exploded and then i heard buzzing in my living room, went in there and saw that TV was on fire! (soo glad we were home when this happened) Willie and kara were sleeping so i woke em up and we unplugged everything- it was too late for a ...

... smog on the north side of Shijiazhuang, we drove through kilometer after kilometer of flat fields divided into 10 cubic meter patches by shallow irrigation ditches. The corn is full grown, though much shorter than the variety one sees in the U.S. In addition, what looked like winter wheat was just beginning to green the brown fields. The fields stretched away to the horizon. Amazingly, we saw very little farm machinery. Dwarfed by the expanse of land and scattered ...