White Building Hotel Hebei 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. <br>We arrived around 11:00 at night and checked into the university. Luke and I went outside looking around as opposed to ...

... no I goes out the the parking lot and intercepts each driver as they go to the covenient store and the bathrooms. Two hours goes by and we had asked about 30 set of drivers with no success. <br><br>It's 10:30pm. Finally just as I am about to give up I see two guys standing close to Liu Chang. They must be truck drivers. I go up to them, offers them some cigarettes from Germany I brought with me, sweet talks them into giving us a ride. Fortuantely they are ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... to watch em, ha. I met two people from the police station's Alien residents department- they welcomed me to china and asked a few questions and then invited me to sing with them at banquet they're having at the end of October. They gave me the lyrics in both chinese and english and a cd to start practicing. jane, willie, and kara will also be singing. wasn't much of a surprise at this point considering we're always being asked to ...

... About half way through our dinner a boy and mother came over and started talking with us. They ended up joining our conversation and sitting with us at the table- they were pretty interesting. She was a teacher at the same school as kara, willie and alissa and the boy was a student who loved to practice his english. Afterward we went to josh's thinking thats where everyone else was meeting up but due ...

... etc." Sometimes it was hard to tell if they were a girl or boy though cuz most of the girls here have extremely short hair (i think it's stylish for them- i think it looks like a mop) If there was any time left after their introductions I asked if there were any questions they'd like to ask- they came up with some pretty good ones- did i watch the olympics? how old am i? what is my favorite animal? (they laughed when i walked around like a ...

... techno and bad English songs, but over all we had a very memorable night...and they had glow sticks so what wasn't there to love. Drew, you would have to come here...bring Keith! So, my to-do list this week includes: - Taking Chinese lessons from Helen - Studying Chinese - Buying a bike - Getting a gym membership - Going to club Seven - Teaching about 700 students - And blogging about it...so that's what you can expect next time! I miss you all a ton!!!!!!!! Kara