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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. <br>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<br>I chose- none of which went together very easily so I received some pretty<br>creative stories. <br><br>*Field Day/Relays outside- We met in the classroom- I drew<br>pictures on the board and explained &#8220;Run backwards race, 3-legged race,<br>piggyback ride race, and wheel barrel race&#8221; &#8211;Gave away the medals my mom sent<br>from home (mine and my brother&#8217;s soccer, cheerleading, basketball, golf awards)<br>Since all the students ...

... house. The live in a storage unit where they sell children's books. We made dumplings and Willie got drunk with the grandpa. Kara and I bought some fun books- I want to give em to the kids I tutor as going away gifts because a lot of em are in Chinese and English. I think Young Young would really like one for her son too. Day of Fun in the Sun with Sunny and Jassi's families *I teach these two little girls and their moms always ask me do things with them but because ...

Guilin China Travel China Attractions Yangshuo China Travel Located in the vicinity of the North China Plain, Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province, neighbors Beijing and Tianjin in the north, Bohai Sea in the east, and lies against the continuous Taihang Mountain in the west. Covering ...

... in Europe" and then I'd give them a few minutes to write down as many as they could think of and then they'd go back and forth. I was happy to see they got really into it. The last five minutes of class I showed them money from different countries (they went nuts!) and I gave pennies to the students who tried the most during the game. The first 2 weeks we were back, I was downtown at Mickey's office every day. I was ...

... There are 2 people from our program teaching there so we're gonna meet up with them and explore the city. It'll be nice to have someone familiar with the area to show us around and I'm excited to hear how their experiences have been-compare living situations/teaching/night life/etc. It's a 35 hr train ride so we're buying "hard beds." There are several options for seats/beds which vary in price. Since we came to Shijiazhuang from Beijing on ...

... it) and preformed that for our part. All of the entertainment was very traditional so our pop/country song was very comical in the mixed of it all! It was a hug hit though and we were given flowers during our performance as well as fruit! It was crazy fun though- got the entire crowd clapping along with our song. After our preformance we were interviewed and had to explain the meaning of Achy ...

... attendants. It was really nice because the flight wasn't very full so we all had our own row to spread out. After about an hour into the flight, we were told we had to turn the plane around and go back to O'Hare because the plane was leaking Nitrogen and the smoke detectors weren't working (thought they checked those things before letting us get on, !?) When we got back to the airport, I called Kirk (our Drake coordinator) to let him know what was ...

... and revenues] for the "austere purity" of white marble.) Great Wall Moments: Generic comment: It's really, really big. Generic Westerner: As Austen &amp; I waited for Robin &amp; our friend Mars to catch up, a young Chinese gentleman with a camera approached us. He said that one of his companions wanted his picture taken with me. I wasn't sure how to respond but could see no harm so agreed. Then, he said that their two females traveling companions also wanted a ...