Royal Seal Changsha

... till im back home! Thanksgiving was sad without the family... but we had a nice chinese dinner with some teachers. We might visit another friend in a larger city for new years, and then Shanghai in the end of January to meet up with Adams dad. Then in feb finally off to hong kong and home!


.... i put up more pics- Recently Elizabeth took us back to the Buddhist temple. We went with her friend and the other foreign teachers in town. Adam and another teacher did a ...

... some carnival games before we were beat tired! We went back to the hotel, cleaned up, and went out for some more shopping. I had a rough time trying to find something that I liked, in a size that was available. That night we went to a club called Mei Li Si Shi which translates to Beautiful Girl 44. This place was alot of fun. They had a 'show' before people go into the club. Kori got to participate, laying on the ground with four other ...

... If you can't guess what that means then forget about it. So, i have taken some very beautiful head shots of the guys that did it. Roman and Pat are missing. Roman wasn't there until later and Pat was being difficult. Thanks for rounding up the other guys, Luke!!

Besides drinking and staying up all night, there is nothing much to report. See for yourself....

... Kysymykset olivat "Mitä pidät Kiinasta?" -tyyppisiä. Oppilaat olivat suloisia ja vähän ujoja, mutta hyvin eloisia ja äänekkäitä myöskin.

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 ...

... game tomorrow. She is an English major, a senior and very talented.

I was able to watch Zhong Bin and Le Tian, today. They are both non- English major juniors and they are very bright.

Le Tian got second prize with 8 other students and Zhong Bin got third prize with 10 other students. This was out of 60 non-English major ...

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.

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.

Besides partying with everyone, not much was done.

Here are the few pictures from the nights in Changsha.

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 ...

... end which we were pretty pleased with! The rest of the week was spent doing the course. Apart from the too early starts (well, half 8...), the course was really good though we had to do a few practise lessons which was really scary! Mine seemed to go ok though and people made that comment again about me seeming like a good primary school teacher. Still not sure what to make about that! There was a test at the end which turned out to be really easy (open book exam!) and ...

... of planning their itinerary over here and the myriad of things that could have gone wrong, their trip proceeded relatively smoothly. We headed down to Guilin for a long weekend, and so they were right away introduced to the joys and frustrations of travel in China. I thoughtfully arranged it so that they would be able to experience both a massive crush of people at the train station, an unheated 9-hour long train ride through the dead of night, and some of the most miserable weather I ...