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... a new friendship, and a look into real life in the Middle Kingdom. What we lack in the West in terms of culture and community we make up for in mass consumption and convenience. China is no doubt inconvenient, but verbal inabilities and lack of vocabulary fail to exclude one gwai lo from the community found so close to home. Fate brought me here and the opportunity is one I cannot pass up. Follow the path set before you and opportunity is ...
Wedding Fireworks are ringing
... house which is just around the corner from her parent's home. We were driven to the village by her father and a family friend. Now when ai say village, I mean it. This place was the kind of rural China that you always picture. Small brick building surrounded by fields of corn and rice. Little rickety old motorcycle carts racketting down the road. Even the bathrooms consisted of cobbled together wooden squat outhouses. At one point I was afraid I was ...
Celebrities and monkeys...
... come down and for the next 90 minutes we walked back down the mountain. Along the way we saw some amazing old pagodas and temples, some over 1000 years old. We also stopped at a waterfall and ventured in the cave beneath which housed the throne of the monkey king. Walking was not easy as many of the stairs and tracks were very steep and required concentration and a sure footing. After a long trek we finished at a beautiful bridge were a bus came and picked us ...
Our first full day in Lianyugang...
... Art, chemistry, Chinese cultural enrichment, p.e. and finally music. This class is a special VCE (the Victorian equivilant of the HSC) class. The students taking this class can sit the VCE exams that the Australian students will sit with the prospect and desire to carry out further tertiary study in Australia. The class is primarily taught in English for every lesson, however some teachers struggle with this. Rob is the main VCE teacher. He is ...
Who's up for a Chinese road trip?
... is a boiling water dispenser. This is great for making a coffee or making noodles which they sold at the shop for 5RNB (80c).
To make the time go more quickly many of the students got some more sleep, listened to their music or broke into some impromptu sing-alongs. Finally after a full days travel we arrived at the school at Lianyugang at 3:30pm to a very warm reception.
Once off the bus the students ...