Wu Yi International Hotel
Travel Blogs from Dalian
Halloween China Style
Halloween blog So this year I celebrated Halloween early. On Friday I hosted a sort of Halloween party for my high school age English students. It was a lot of fun. Everyone brought food and many of the students dressed up like I asked them to. I think they dressed up simply because I threatened to draw a cat nose and whiskers in eye liner on anyone who forgot. Let's just say we had three people in black cat "costumes" that they hadn't planned on ...
我在中国生活
... good!
On Thursday afternoon I teach an English class. My class has six students and they are all great students. On Saturday I teach a girl, and on Sunday I teach a boy. They're both also very good students. Teaching them makes me very happy! I think teaching is very hard because I've never taught before, but I think it is also very good because after college I think I want to be a teacher in a foreign country and I want to practice teaching right ...
Kindergarten part 2
Ok so I am currently writing this as I hide in a curtained section of the kindergarten so that I don't scare the new child. She is less than two years old and this is her first day at a kindergarten away from grandma and mom. She is very freaked out and apparently scared of the strange white teacher. It turns out that my "big eyes" scare her. I usually think of my big eyes as my best feature, but apparently they are terrifying to ...
What I've Been Learning
... to live for I'm genuinely thankful you are part of my life.
One really cool opportunity I've been given to put this love into practice is teaching English. Starting next week I'll be given a class of six high school students to teach English to once a week. I've been told my students are the kids who didn't try very hard in school and didn't pass the college placement test, but are being given another chance to take it next ...
A police escort
... the Big Apple which is a restaurant that serves a mixture of western and Chinese foods. It was a super funky, eclectic place with lots of American memorabilia including toy cars and a native American ceremonial mask. As is the custom here, Eric paid for everything all day because he was the one who invited us out. It was such a great way to spend the day exploring the city with him. We are looking forward to future adventures with him again ...