The Philippines

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Sept-Nov

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playing Frisbee in the park!

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awesome corn sugar pizza, pretty common

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how I buy my eggs, less than a dollar for over a dozen in a plastic sack...thankfully that time none of them broke

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fresh veggies, less than a dollar for all of them!

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mooncakes from my student!

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1st layer

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2 layers!

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sweet grapes from the school

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Sports Meeting

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My bike!!

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the pomegranate juice I hand squeezed

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"One of each 10 american wears baofang slippers"

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Lucy, Echo, Jenna, Carol, me, Bella, Laura, Elise, Yingying

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haha candied pomelo peel...

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Crazy English with Li Yang

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In Yingying's "stupid car"
Back in ZJG/24th birthday

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Vietnam Day 2

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Insadong and more

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Hanbok

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Lotte World

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kids

Allen

Marks

Coffee

Jack

Sally

Helen

Ring

Amily

Tracy

Emily

Lily

Allison

Lansing

John

Susan
Dongdaemun Market

DSCN3865.JPG
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Day 2 Korea

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Day 1 Korea

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Temple of Heaven

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Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City

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The Great Wall!

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My tutor family

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Harbin and the world's 2nd tallest man!

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Bella's Surprise Party

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Holidays (it's about time!)

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Thanksgiving, Prom, Wuxi day trip, and Educational/Christmas Dinner

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What I've been up to!

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National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival

On the bus to go pick up Madison
bumper to bumper traffic

SO many cars
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All ready to go!
smallest bag to biggest! I can't pack light! if you look next Madison's legs those are the clothes she made me take out...it was for the best! :)

At the bus station
ready to go to Wuxi to catch our train to Tai'An

In Wuxi
waiting to get on the Train, we spent 5ish hours in Wuxi...

tickets!!

hangin out

sleeper car
In the train on the sleeper car, Maddy and Madison were right around the corner, so spacious huh!?

hey there!
told ya I was right around the corner!

hangin out!
enjoying all the space! haha good thing we're short :)

my bed
My bed was up on the top, you can only see the bottom, it was actually pretty comfy to lay down on! There were 2 below me.

interesting mural

kiddie holder
notice the rope making sure the kid doesn't run away

outside the hostel

year of the rabbit

year of the rabbit

very detailed


huge statue

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year of the "tiger"
I didn't have a bench, we made this the tiger :)

modern art?
not really sure why someone put their shoes in the tree...

All about Dai Temple!

Dai Temple layout
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Dai Temple

Dai Temple

Dai Temple
you could purchase a candle to put in here

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haha

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not sure what it says...wish I knew!
there were rocks like this everywhere!

Dai Temple
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crazy tree
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pretty roses
this picture goes in and out of focus...just realized and sharing. hehe

All about this huge turtle
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here it is!
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this is also on the turtle
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Isn't it huge!?
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stage for a LONG performance
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close up
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maddy!
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dancing
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couples dance
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these 2 were hilarious
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see what I mean?!
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great facials!
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action shot
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victorious! haha
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they made it too!
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yeah...
I thought I'd try and get a cool jumping picture...

don't think it worked so well!
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she's falling
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just kidding!
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yikes!
it was a ways down

this is what it looked like
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that's okay though
I'm not really too scared

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I thought this was cute
He was looking at all the calligraphy on the rock.

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A Wonder of the World
this was the most popular rock, and the translation is "A Wonder of the World" I guess that describes us pretty well :)

me!
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Stone Info
The following stones were discovered less than 10 years ago.

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Tai Chi
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Mount Tai replica
we went ALL the way to the top

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I've got the whole wide world in my hands!
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fish :)
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narcism lol jk
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love at 1st sight ;)
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imitation
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yet again, except I'm not decapitated.
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A view of the mountains
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people were flying kites
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artsy?
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there was a basketball court in the Dai Temple?
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group shot!
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cute
"blue" on a yellow shirt...this kid is totally rockin it with the backwards hat and sunglasses.

hehe me in a tree
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hot pot
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hot pot food
you put all the food in the bowl, the one side was spicy...it's so hot that it cooks it.

I found this!
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penguins on top of Tai Shan
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after we warmed up some
I bought milk tea with the 50 and we warmed up a bit before watching the sun rise

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all bundled up!
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Scallion wrapped pancake
Tai'an was famous for these so we tried one...not exactly what I was thinking.

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scrumptious little dessert
We ate at a bakery that was in the guidebook and it was wonderful!

We found a church!
We couldn't go in though. It was next to a school.

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Wish I could read this!
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ready to go
all ready to leave the hostel!

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hotel
ahh!!! lovely hotel!

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milo coffee
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seaweed salad
They had seaweed salad, I LOVE this stuff and haven't had any in the last couple months!

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mmm chocolate moouse
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weird lil thing
we're not sure what it was...but it was the reason we woke up at 6 pm...the floor attendant knocked on our door and gave us this.

such a warm welcome
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bumper boats in the mall!
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fish at the hotel
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interesting outfit...
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wouldn't you know there's 2 of em! :)
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Teacher's Day

Eunji and I
This is one of the Korean teachers who lives in my building. She's very nice!

Bella and I
Bella is one of our co-teachers, she's great!

Richard and Bella
Bella is Richard's co-teacher.

Paul and Bella

food, food, and more food!
They had massive amounts of food, it just kept coming! Among this food is fish, shrimp, chicken, peanuts, and much more that I don't know the name of!

Richard and Paul
Waiting to eat...

Madeline and I
We were waiting to eat as well!

Tan, Bella, and Madeline
Tan is Madeline's co-teacher.

Lots of people
There were no empty tables!

Crab
My own little crab, let me tell ya, this thing was a lot of work for a little meat!

Richard and turtle head
This is Richard eating the turtle meat right near the head.

No more meat
The remains of the turtle head

Me with turtle
I tried it...it's not bad, but the pig intestine in the bowl was definitely not for me!

Ken and his girlfriend
Ken helped us move all our stuff from the hotel to the school, he's a hard worker and a great person. He and his girlfriend are great singers!

Carol and I
Carol is our waiban, we go to her with any concerns or questions, she's very friendly.
1st week in Zhangjiagang

Track
There's a track next to the buildings and inbetween the new international school and the older buildings.

Pohang International School
This building is brand new and really nice! It has classrooms for Korean students and also a nursery.

buildings and track
These are some of the buildings we teach in...

Flags
They have these flags all around the campus, they are great and bring a lot of color to the campus.

Zhang Jia Gang Foreign Language School

Below Flags
They also have these gorgeous flowers below the flags.

Front gate
This is from inside the school, that gate is the main entrance to the school.

hospital
On our first day we drove past this hospital, I thought it might be a good idea to take a picture.

Hotel
This looked like a really nice hotel if anyone wants to come visit! :)

Chinese characters
I should know the characters for Zhangjiagang and this picture shows them pretty well.

Birthday!
They bought me a birthday cake!! It was delicious and I loved it!

My birthday cake
My yummy cake!

At the park
Liangfeng Ecological Park

Bonsai

Yay for Bonsai
Maddy, myself, and Paul

More bonsai

Bonsai
Me with the Bonsai

Cute little table
I liked this table and "chairs"

Pretty mountain scene

Pink flowering tree
I thought this tree was really pretty.

ME!
Me in front of one of the many bridges that lead to different areas of the park!

Black Swans
They had all these black swans!

lake
You can rent a boat and go out on the lake.

boat pricing...

Nice little beach and playground
They have a sign that says no swimming though :(

Kid
This kid was pushing a matchbox car down the bridge, it was cute.

Pirate ship playground on beach

My building!
This is the building I live in, the 2nd set of windows (in the middle) on the right are mine!

Childrens' Dorms
Some kids stay here all the time...

Boy Dormitory

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One week in Shanghai

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Start of China trip!

Important info
I figured I should have a picture of the address if there wasn't going to be anyone at the airport for me, thankfully there was and I found 8 other CIEE participants!

facechanging
our 1st night we went to a facechanging performance!

facechanging
it was amazing

hello kitty
this car was decked out in hello kitty stickers

hamilton
So J&J this is for you

shopping mall
inside of the mall in Shanghai, subway was below

cool pic
inside the WFC

cool building
this was near WFC

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World Financial Center
China's tallest building

more mall
it was gigantic

elevator
coolest elevator ever!

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elevator
going up!

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Cool building
Pearl building is what I'll call it

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The start of another year in ZJG! (written Aug. 24)
I’ve just gotten on the bus to ZJG. I’m so excited! It just feels right. The flight was great, the man that was suppose to sit next to me ended up moving before the flight even took off so I had the seat to myself! It was a 2 seat area so there was no one next to me at all, it was really great. Then I made the bus to ZJG…it had pulled up right before I got my ticket, had I been 5 minutes later I would have had to wait an hour. The only thing that could be better right now is if I had money on my phone. I put 50 kuai on it before I left but for some reason it’s all out of money already…but it’s okay, I can put money on it when I get back to town! It should take about 3 hours I think, I’d slept quite a bit on the plane, not too many long hour sessions but I did sleep on and off for about 8-10 hours I think. I woke up over the North Pole. Of course I couldn’t see anything but still it was cool. I also had my own tv on the back of the seat in front of me. I watched 2 movies, so I guess it was probably more like 8 hours of sleep…I also watched an episode of something, I can’t remember. The movies I watched were Date Night and Last Song. They were okay, not fantastic I don’t think. It’s stormy here now, well in the distance, it’s not raining currently but it was. I could see lightning when I was in the plane. Oh and I saw Jenny and Ian! I was waiting in the customs line and thought hey I recognize that girl and it was Jenny! Then I saw Ian, I think he’s grown taller since I saw him last. There aren’t too many people on the bus. Maybe 15 total. The new teachers don’t get in until Aug. 31 or maybe even Sept. 1. HA. I have enough mixes and whatnot to have something at least once a month. I hope everyone will want to go in on a toaster oven with me! If not I suppose I’ll just do it. Now it’s raining, I hope it’s not raining in ZJG. Especially while I move all my bags! I saw a guy in cuffs at O’Hare too...that’s in addition to the lady Dad, Mom, Joanna and I saw this morning at the Cedar Rapids airport. Surprisingly she wasn’t on my flight. I’m not sure what I’m going to do when I get back….unpack? get milk tea? I think Bella is back and Lucy too, maybe we’ll get dinner. I should go to the gym too since I’ve been sitting ALL day. I’m excited to see everyone! Packing this year was much better than last. I wasn’t frantically trying to get everything to fit. I had packed some/most of my clothes prior but then realized I had too many so I unpacked all my Ziploc bags and took some clothes out. I brought a lot more clothes and some nicer ones too. Last year I felt like I was wearing the same thing all the time and I also didn’t bring too many nice clothes so I felt like I wore the same things. I did buy some things but I was also thinking that when I go back to the states I’m not going to want to wear things from 3 years ago or 2…most likely anyways, who even knows if they’ll be in style. Anyway, I like to have a selection so I’m improving it now. I’ll def need to buy more hangers. I brought back more shoes too J I hope my apt isn’t too dusty. And I really hope they didn’t shut the power off! I’m kind of tired now…maybe it’s the rain…I might nap.
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Catching up
2 entries from my phone from the last two months....
Nov. 21
I'm in china. I've been here for almost 3 months and there are still times I just can't believe I'm really here. I'm on my way to jiaxing with maddy to visit Madison. The bus ride has been pretty interesting so far, we've only been on the bus for 35 min and we've stopped probably at least 10 times to pick up random people on the side of the road or just to pick up stuff-not even people. This bus driver is also honk happy. Ugh. It's about a 3 hr ride-and we just stopped again...I hope we get on a highway soon-no more stopping I'd think and less honking I'd assume. I've been listening to christmas music a lot lately. I love it and it puts me in a great mood. The continual workin out probably helps too. I just love it here. I don't even know if I can explain why. I just feel so happy and good here. Sure there are classes that get me a bit angry because they don't listen but when it comes down to it I absolutely love it and a couple classes that are a bit chatty aren't going to change that. So back to this bus situation-we just stopped and picked up a box from some random guy on the corner. So confused. At the station you have to put your bags through an x-Ray machine so how does it work when we pick up random people?! And what does this man do with the big wad of cash he's collecting? The bus is creeking. Doesn't sound too good...anyway so I got a bike a while ago and the seat had worked it's way down so I went back and had them move it back up. So once again it was back down and it's so hard and so much more work to ride when your legs don't extend one bit. So I went to the post office yesterday and saw a toolish looking shop near it so I figured I might as well stop and see if I can buy a wrench to fix my bike whenever it breaks but me not being able to speak chinese just said "I want" and motioned fixing my bike. The lady gave me a wench and I was working on it when some guy appears-don't really know if he worked at the shop or was just some random guy walking by but he starts working on my bike and gets my seat up!!! So I smile and say thank you then he pushes on it and it goes right back down!! So he motions that we'll walk somewhere, kicks up my kickstand and starts walking my bike. Only about a block away is a bike shop but I didn't see it because it's the opposite side of where I turn. This random guy and another guy at the bike shop who was getting his bike fixed end up fixing my bike! :-) the guy asked me where I was from and if I spoke Chinese so he spoke English but didn't say much. I was so thankful-they were so nice, I'm some random girl who says maybe 5 words in Chinese and they fix my bike for me! Soooo nice. Although I wasn't sure if I should offer them money but I wonder if they would be offended. I had just wanted to buy it, but of course that was lost in translation well I guess I can't really even say that since I hardly said anything! So a couple weeks ago maddy and I went to check out this park. It was really nice and that's what some of my pics are from. They had this big blow up thing that was on the water so I did that and it was so much fun! It was a huge workout too!! Any time I stood up to try and run in it I would fall right back down. They also had a driving range sk maddy was able to hit a few balls, she didn't do the water thing. But Paul did! We ran into him at the park too, when we had first arrived we saw this cool hilly thing and at the end was Paul! Haha.
Dec 20
So it's been almost 4 months since I've arrived in china. It's crazy to think that!!! I still love it here. We're on the bus home from Nanjing. This is 2 weekends in a row I've been on a weekend trip. I love it.
Last weekend Helen, Maddy and I went to Wuxi, it was quite the trip. Helen had never been to Wuxi but Maddy and I were there during National day. We went back to the same big mall, I was on the hunt for some skinny jeans. I've never owned a pair but I had bought a cheap pair of boots that I needed skinny jeans for. Well I found some at H&M so I got what I wanted but somewhere throughout my search and Maddys oh so desired Starbucks stop I managed to lose my cell phone. I've misplaced, even forgot a phone before but I've never permanently lost one. It was sad. We went back to every store and asked but no one had it. I'm assuming I set it down to look at something and forgot to pick it back up or someone snatched it. So after that we got dinner-Aijisen Ramen. Funny thing though, i've ate at this place a few times but have yet to get their ramen! They have a great seaweed salad though! I've had the fried rice and breaded pork dish-both of which are amazing. So after dinner we got to thinking we should probably check and see what time the last bus left. Maddy went to check while Helen and I went back to Carefour to get stuff from their import section-they has so much stuff we didn't want to buy it before and have to lug it around the mall. While we're looking at stuff Helen's phone keeps beeping low battery and we try calling Maddy to see what she figured out about the bus but more importantly what she wanted from the import section :-). No answer. A few minutes later she calls back and I hear Helen say "what?! We can't do that" she gets off the phone and tells me that maddy told her the last bus leaves in SEVEN minutes! And we're like a 15 minute walk from the bus station. So we look at each other, drop all our stuff on some display in the middle of the aisle and start running. Of course the mall is busy so we're trying to run around all these people to get to te escalator to just get downstairs. We pretty much bust through this couple screaming "duibuqi" as we basically push them out of the way. We find some doors that lead to the outside and what do we see-bumper to bumper traffic. Lovely. Even better, it's raining cats and dogs and I'm wearing the cheap boots I had bought which were just a bit too big. I start running down the road-in the wrong direction! Turn around, run through who knows how many puddles to the edge of the street and thankfully there was a taxi with no one in it! I throw out my arm and he stops-I hop in the back and tell him what I can remember for bus station "gong gong Che cha" something or other while Helen is running to us, she gets in front and tells him in much better Chinese to hurry and take us to the bus station. He starts driving but is of course laughing at us and I think at this point we had 4 minutes to get there. He told us we wouldn't make it. I had my 10¥ out and gave it to Helen as soon as we approached the bus station I opened my door and helen gives him the 10¥ while he's like "your change" we're already back on the run-physically- for the entrance to the station. Normally you have to put your bags through an x-Ray machine but there was no time for that I ran past the machine to the gate but something was missing. Maddy was no where in sight! Helen and I are like where is she!? We had just talked to her in the cab to tell to buy the tickets. So I ran over to the ticket buying area and there are no windows open and not a single person in the area. I run back over to Helen and as I'm running over to her maddy is running up to her as well. We hand the lady our tickets and make it on the bus! It rained the entire way back to ZJG and of course it was raining when we had arrived. But why stop such a good day there? The arrival bus station was near the walking street so we figured we might as well go there! Although all the shops were closing up and it was still raining we proceeded to continue with our shopping day. By the time I got home my feet were soaked, white and starting to prune from the awesome cheap boots I had bought.
This weekend Maddy and I took the early bus 7:25 to Nanjing. Richard had went on Friday to take a Chinese proficiency test for a Johns Hopkins program in nanjing. The bus was fresh outta the barn and was freezing! It's been in the low 20s at night. It was about a 3 hour ride. Wasn't too bad- I slept a good portion and the bus was practically empty although everyone who had got on after us encircled us for some reason... We went to see San Yat Suns tomb, the Presidential Palace, and the Massacre museum. In 1937 the Japanese attacked Nanjing, mutilating, raping and mass murdering it's civilians. More than 300,000 men, women, and children were killed. It was a very somber museum. We decided to go home and rest for a bit then go back out, well Maddy and I had just bought some hot milk teas so we did a little shopping right near our hostel. Then rested for a bit before going back out. We checked out a pricy import store then decided we'd go to the main shopping street. Before we had gotten there Richard had a lil book that had info and whatnot in it. There was an advertisement for all you can eat sushi for about $15. I've heard if places like that in Shang Hai but never been so I was definitely for it. We finally found it and it was delightful. :-). It was near a Wal-mart and I thought they might have a good import section but it really wasn't that great unfortunately. We just went to the hostel after that since the last bus (we learned from the prior week to check in advance) was leaving at 11am and all the shopping stores were closing.
I'm currently on the bus and this trip we haven't stopped to pick up any random people or items. It's been nice. My family celebrated Christmas today (the 19th). It's so early. Kinda hard to believe I'm not there to celebrate it too but it doesn't seem a LoT like Christmas yet. No snow. There are Christmas decorations but most are quite gaudy. I have been listening to christmas music for about a month but still don't quite feel it's Christmas. The last 5 years I've been taking finals up to now and rushing to get all my gifts bought after the treacherous finals week.
National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival
So below is a collection of journal entries I did on my phone throughout my vacation... I went with Maddy, teacher here in ZJG, and Madison, a teacher in Jiaxing through CIEE who was on my flight.
I'm waiting in the train station in Wuxi and a train just past by-it got me super excited. I love trains. I think this is going to be such a great trip. China is a wonderful place and this is a fabulous experience I'm only a month into!! Oct. 3 10:04 PM
So I'm laying here on the train. It's unlike anything I've ever experienced. To the left of me is a bed like mine, maybe two feet wide and most definitely not longer than five and a half feet. I have a pillow and a blanket although the blanket is under my knees partially and my purse is at my feet. Below me are 2 beds exactly like my own and kitty corner is the same. To the right there is a wall, on the other side of the wall there's Madison and then next to her is Maddy. I'm sleeping with my head toward the aisle, beyond my head is the luggage rack holding my oversized and overpacked backpack along with our shoes holding our glasses. I can't believe I had the impression we'd have a small little room to ourselves!! Lol well I'm perfectly content and think this is a wonderful experience, how many people can say they took an 11 hour train ride sleeping in a 2x5.5 ft bed with 6 other people in the immediate area and probably 6 other areas the same?!? It's absolutely the experience of a lifetime. And with that I'll try and get some sleep. Oct. 4 12:07 AM
So it's only 7:26 and were already off the train, we've been to the bathroom and are back in line trying to buy our return tickets. I was woken up this morning by a man hitting my shoulder wanting my ticket. It wasn't even 7:00 yet, definitely not 11 hours like I had thought-more like 8! Anyways we got a tourist map already too. She said 5 I said 1 she said no so I started to walk away she followed and said 2 so I said okay :-) my 1st bargaining experience. But I'll admit I read somewhere that you can get them for 1or 2 so I'm not sure if I would have thought to do that if I hadn't read about it. I'll have to try again with souvenirs. So the bed wasn't too bad, I think it may have been more plush than my bed at my apt. Although I did end up using the blanket as it did get cold eventually. I must have woke up at least once an hour but fell back asleep immediately. I think it took me a while to fall asleep in the first place. I was listening to my relaxing music and remember waking up when the last track ended so I'm not sure how long I had slept for that time. Oct. 4 7:35 AM
So that was while I was on vacation, now that I'm back, and yes this is definitely delayed seeing as how it's Oct. 19 and I got back Oct. 7 but better late than never!
So day by day-
Oct. 3-This was the day we left for our vacation. We caught a bus out of ZJG at 3:30 to go to Wuxi. This took about an hour and a half. Within the first few minutes on the bus the driver was rather horn happy-he honked his horn at everything. I decided I should count how many times he honks his horn, by the time we got to Wuxi it was over 75 times, I stopped counting! It was crazy, what made it worse was we were seated directly behind the driver, needless to say my head was aching by the time we made it to Wuxi from the loud, obnoxious horn. Once we arrived in Wuxi we found the train station so we knew where we needed to be later that night and decided we should get some dinner. Rather than go on a wild goose chase with our bags (mine was pretty heavy) we decided to crash at McDonald’s, which was right next to the train station. We had a great time playing cards to pass the time. We eventually headed over to the train station around 9 since our train was to leave at 10:46 or something. We ended up waiting around til 11:30 when our train finally got there. We were unsure what to expect about our train but it worked out well.
Oct. 4-So after maybe 5 hours of “sleep” we arrived in Tai’An (much sooner than we thought we would). We ended up getting our return tickets after waiting in line for a good 45 minutes at least. Well I waited off to the side while Maddy and Madison got the tickets. Turned out the only available return train was the next day, Oct. 5 at 8 or Oct. 10 which was too late since we had to be back to teach on the 9th. We found our way out of the train station to try and find a bus to take us to our hostel. After looking a few different places, “talking” to some locals, we found where the right bus stop was and which stop was ours. Well riding the bus didn’t go quite as smoothly as we thought it would. We ended up missing our stop, so we had to get off the bus and get back on the next one going the direction we had just came from! It was hard because the bus stops were hardly marked and if they were it was in like size 10 font on the side of a post. All in all we made it to the hostel got our room, refueled on some peanut butter sandwiches, and discussed our plans for our 2 days there. We ended up getting lunch at a place that was recommended in the guidebook before visiting the Dai Temple. The restaurant was known for dumplings so we ordered some but were unsure how much to order along with another dish, and if we would need a 3rd dish. The server told us that we should get 3 dishes so we did, and ended up with WAY too much food. The dumplings came out last after we’d ate a good portion of potatoes and some delicious kung pao chicken. We had 2 full plates of dumplings and hardly finished one. All things considered, it was a good lunch but I’m not quite sure why our server thought we could manage to eat all of that and didn’t recommend that we only order 2 dishes. We visited the Dai Temple next and spent about 3 hours there. It was huge and there were a lot historical statues and whatnot to check out as well as a performance by an “elderly” group. It was pretty entertaining. After the temple we went to a Hot-Pot restaurant, this was my first time at one. It was really good. We ended up accidently ordering some type of brain…it said flower brain, which I guess, is also or close to what they call broccoli or cauliflower but definitely not in this case. We got them to take it away which is good because we surely weren’t going to eat it! We had some type of pork, bean sprouts, mushrooms, and “spinach” which wasn’t what we thought it was going to be-it was more like fish meat balls or something… but I liked the Hot-Pot J After dinner we thought it’d be a good idea to go back to the hostel and get a bit of sleep before climbing the mountain. We didn’t end up getting back, showered, and into bed until 8:30 or so which didn’t allow for too much sleep since we were getting back up at 11:30 to head to Mount Tai. We left the hostel about midnight after maybe 2 hours of sleep and that’s stretching it!
Oct. 5-We arrived at the foot of the mountain at 1 and were able to get our tickets for half price by showing them our student ID cards from our US universities. It was 60 Yuan instead of 120. We stopped at the halfway point to sit and have some peanut butter sandwiches and put on warmer clothes although we were sweating so much it was getting colder and colder as we approached the summit. After 3 hours of burning thighs and playing a geography game to keep our minds off of our burning thighs, as if that was possible, we ended up reaching the summit at 4:05. It was over 6500 steps to the top, I found 50 Yuan at the summit as well! It was so cold at the top! They had big Russian looking coats you could rent out but piled on our hats, scarves, and gloves to keep warm. We also had a milk tea to pass the time and heat ourselves up. They say that everything increases in price as you go up the mountain-I paid 8 Yuan for a milk tea at the top that I saw for 2.5 at the supermarket a couple days when I came back. It’s a huge money making opportunity up there. We had to wait around until 6 or so for the sun to come out and it was crazy how many other people were there! Out of all the other people we only saw 2 people with Wisconsin sweatshirts on and 1 guy from Germany, the rest were Asian! We had done something that was truly a Chinese holiday activity J We ended up heading back down the mountain around 7:30. At the halfway point Madison and I took a bus to the bottom. Going down the mountain was just as painful as going up! It was terrible on our knees and calves! There was the constant fear going up and down of missing a step and tumbling down all of them taking out several people at the same time. We got back to the hostel around 9 and attempted to get some sleep. About 1:30 we got up, got ready and went to get some lunch. The guidebook had mentioned a bakery and it was only a couple blocks from our hostel so we went there, it was delicious! After the bakery we went to find this church that had been mentioned in the guidebook, I think we found it but it was not open so we took a couple pictures and headed to get an iced coffee at McDonald’s…not your typical iced coffee either, this had ice cream on top! It was pretty good and that definitely says something since I don’t care for coffee usually! Although to add ice cream kinda makes it more of a dessert and I don’t even know if I’d classify it as coffee then! We got some stamps for our postcards, went back to the hostel and hung out there before leaving for our 8:00 train. One of the hostel workers/owners actually gave us a ride to the station so that was great, we didn’t have to deal with the buses or cab it there with all of our big bags-or at least me with my big bag. So we got to the train station with a couple hours to wait. I forgot to mention when we got our return tickets the only thing they had available were standing tickets. We weren’t quite sure what to expect with this one but we knew it couldn’t be too good. We figured it was a rush to the train cart so we waited in line well before they’d let us go just to make sure we could be 1st. Once they opened the gate we ran to get the platform but a worker stopped us and we all had to wait so I thought “Great, we’re at the front of the line, this lady will take us to the platform and we’ll be able to get on 1st and grab any open seats.” Boy was I wrong, we all lined up, then she started us walking and before I knew it everyone was racing around us so we started running-keep in mind our legs have already had intense exercise from climbing the mountain-we had to run up a flight of stairs, then down a hallway then back down a flight of stairs. OUCH. It hurt. But that wasn’t all; we had to run even more! Our train car was the 1st one so we had to run all the way down to the end of the platform, but the tricky part was that it wasn’t marked where the cars would stop so we spaced ourselves out somewhat but then the train started coming and I was closest to the end so I bolted to the doorway. Not that it helped too much because when I got in I wasn’t sure which way to go and there were SO many people on the train already. We found one seat and didn’t think it’d get too much better than that so we settled in there and planned on rotating with the seat. I decided I’d sit on the floor for a while which wasn’t so bad, people had expected me to get up for them to walk by but it was much more work and didn’t make any sense so I just had them climb over my legs and it worked just as well if not better since I didn’t have to get up constantly. After about 2 hours I decided to stand and stretch my legs when a man offered me his seat. So I took it and talked to him for a bit, he was university student who was heading back to college. I continually asked him if he wanted his seat but he kept telling me “you sit, you sit” so I did.
Oct. 6-About midnight I started to doze off and would doze off for about 20 min each time waking up with a cramp in my next. I didn’t bring my neck pillow since we had a sleeper train on the way there and I didn’t think I’d need it! Once again about 3 AM I asked him if he wanted his seat and he said if I wasn’t tired he’d take it. So I gave it back to him, stood for about an hour then the people around our 1 seat left and the 3 of us were able to sit. We had thought we’d be back in Wuxi by 4 since it didn’t take very long the 1st time but of course when we’re not in a sleeper car it would take longer. The train kept making random stops and would sit in stations for 30 minutes or so. The lady across from me while I was sitting kept putting her feet up right next to my legs and there was a disgustingly in love couple next to her so it was quite the trip. Also it wasn’t air conditioned so there were times I could have sworn it was 100 degrees in there with no ventilation and about 100 people-you can only imagine…We finally made it to Wuxi around 8 AM. We were tired, hot, hungry, and sore. We resorted once again to the McDonald’s for breakfast. We had booked a Super8 motel since our bus tickets were for the 7th so we had a day and a half to spend in Wuxi. One we ate breakfast we went to find a cab to take us to our hotel but then I saw it was kinda just across the street but of course it wasn’t quite that easy to get there. About 25 min later we’re at the reception desk being told they don’t have our reservation and we should go around the corner to 7 Days Inn (or something)…frustrating! So we go there and they don’t have any rooms available. We see a 25 story or so hotel across the street from the 7 Day, looks expensive but at this point we’d already been turned down 2x and figured we’d try it. We walk in and are amazed, it’s beautiful, clean, and so nice. Turns out its 488 for a room with 2 beds but they’re not very big so we get an extra bed for 200-total bout 100 US…not too shabby. We checked in, showered in their amazing shower, and crashed. We hadn’t had a full nights sleep since the night of Oct. 2 and it was now Oct. 6. We slept from 11 AM to 6 PM and I’m pretty sure the only reason we woke up was because the room attendant knocked on our door! So we decided we probably should get some dinner, we went to Ajisen Noodle, apparently it’s a chain all over the world, and they have seaweed salad!!!! It was so good, not just the seaweed salad, but the pork and rice dish I ordered was stupendous as well. After dinner we went and got some water and decided we’d just relax in the hotel room and explore Wuxi the next day. The hotel gave us a card for a free soda or juice so we went and got some chocolate mousse to enjoy with our soda.
Oct. 7-We slept in…even though we had gone to bed at midnight we still slept til about 10, and that’s after sleeping for 7 hours the DAY before…that just tells you how sleep deprived we were! The hotel had a baggage check so we explored Wuxi with the luxury of not having to lug around our bags. We were going to go to Lake Tai but apparently it’s quite a distance from the city so we went shopping instead. There wasn’t really much in the guidebook to see in Wuxi. I ended up buying a winter coat that’s super cute and heavy so it should be good. It was only 300 Yuan (roughly $36) this was especially good since I didn’t bring mine! Yadda, yadda, yadda, not too much more exciting stuff happened the rest of the day. We caught our bus home at 7 ended up going to a different bus station in ZJG and were unsure of where we were but turned out we were pretty close to our school.
Really long entry and rather detailed but that’s how I remember my vacation. I really enjoyed it and feel like we did a pretty authentic Chinese vacation and that makes me happy. We got to experience the sleeper car, standing car, and much more. It was really great to get away for a couple days and see a different part of China. It was also some good girl time! J Always good to have that!
One month!!!
So I had this great entry when to post it and it disappeared...guess I'll try it again.
I've been in China for one month exactly! Thoughts and impressions....
1-The people in ZJG are great. They are so friendly to me, a foreigner who can hardly communicate with them.
and now I'm now I'm trying to remember what I had on my other one but just getting frustrated, I think it's time for bed and I'll add more tomorrow.
Here's what I finally came up with to add...
A couple things that I’ve noted over my 1st month here
1-It never gets old seeing the kids (4-7yrs) on the playground while walking to class and have them rush up to me to practice their English which mainly consists of “Hello, Good morning. Nice to meet you, and what’s your name.” It brings a smile to my face every time.
2-It is definitely a learning process not only for the students but for myself as well, I think this will continue throughout the year. I tweak my lessons throughout the week which works well but I always feel bad for the classes who have my 1st lessons.
3-I still can’t imagine living my teenage years as they do. They’re up every morning by 6 at the latest, attend school all day, and I’m not entirely sure but if they leave (some live on campus) they don’t leave until 9 PM.
4-China isn’t a HUGE culture shock. Sure, some things are different-squat toilets, baby bottoms everywhere, being charged for a plastic sack at the store (why isn’t the US doing this?!). And I realize these are all minor superficial differences but all in all I’m doing well with EVERYTHING.
5-My town is very clean and the people living here are very friendly. A smile is often returned on the street, even a “Ni hao”. There are definitely times where people will look at me for longer than a couple seconds and are so curious about me, the foreigner, which they’ll point out. In the grocery store people will look at me, then instantly look at my cart to see what I’m buying. It makes me smile.
6-I can’t get over how cheap things are here. A taxi ride is about the equivalent of $1.30. A bottled water is usually not over 30 cents. A meal at the school cafeteria is about $1. It’s just hard to believe how inexpensive items are here.
Learning the Ropes (or attempting)
So this past week has been quite the learning experience...
Monday-Woke up early to go to breakfast at 7, its actually not too bad getting up early, it's nice to have a bit of free time before class rather than rushing :) Last Thursday a girl from my class invited me to go listen to CDs with them during dinnertime so as I was leaving my last class Monday she approached me in the hall. I went and listened to CDs with her and 2 other girls, who are in Richard's class...they were pretty funny. One of them tells me they read a passage from this book and asked if I would read it so of course I said sure. So she tells me we'll read it after the next song, and towards the end of the song she says we read it over the intercom so the ENTIRE school hears it. I suggest to her that we alternate paragraphs but she tells me there are words she doesn't know so she'll read the 1st and last paragraph. So I end up reading this speech by Michael Jackson...I was really curious about it so I looked it up and I found out it's actually a lot longer so I picked out what I remembered reading and included it below-it's actually not too bad!
Tuesday-I start new lessons on Tuesday so it was the 1st day of the new lessons, they went alright. I had my youngest students (7th grade) draw the animals we discussed last week in their environment/habitat and describe the picture to the class. I let them hang their pictures in my classroom so now there's a bit more color! My 8th graders learned about traveling last week so I had them do an activity with flags. They had to partner up back to back, one would be the artist and the other would be the describer. I gave the artist a blank sheet of paper and the describer a map of a South American country...this worked pretty well for this class so now I have "flags" hanging on the wall with the animals. The point of this lesson was to have them practice their speaking skills and listening skills. My oldest students (I had promised a song) listened to the Backstreet Boys (they love them) and I had them fill in the blank with the lyrics then paraphrase each lyric. It also worked pretty well.
Wednesday-Started out alright but then had to become the meanest teacher. I had explained the map activity to a class and they started. Well they were showing their maps and talking in Chinese, so I took everyone's piece of paper and told them to have a seat. I explained the point of the lesson was not to copy the map, it was to use your English skills! I told them that we could try again if they wanted, otherwise we'd write papers and read them in front of the class-boring right?! I let them try again and it was just as terrible as before so I had no choice but to take their papers, once again, and get them back in their seats. I told them: I had other classes who had done this activity without any problems so they should have been able to handle it, I thought we could do a fun activity but since they would not listen we were writing papers and reading them to the class, and that bad behavior doesn't get rewarded, sorry to the students who were behaving but your classmates ruined it and maybe next time we can have a fun class. I made them write about their parents and themselves. I was mean. But hopefully they will have learned a lesson and will listen next time. I feel bad at times since they're in school so much and don't have a lot of time to be kids but if they can't listen for a fun activity then I have no other choice. The next class did the flag activity and they were much better, although they weren't quite as secretive with their maps as they should have been they were not holding them up for their partners to copy (or at least what I saw).
Thursday-That's today! I was super pumped to sleep in since I've been getting up early to go to breakfast. I got to sleep til about 9:15 when Marsha, my co-teacher, called me and told me I'd be going to get my residency permit and visa sorted out at 1:20 today and my class at that time and the one after would be cancelled...So that's the story about this week's classes....
MJ's Speech
Tonight, I come before you less as an icon of pop (whatever that means
anyway), and more as an icon of a generation, a generation that no
longer knows what it means to be children.
Those of you who are familiar with the Jackson Five know that I began
performing at the tender age of five and that ever since then, I
haven't stopped dancing or singing. But while performing and making
music undoubtedly remain as some of my greatest joys, when I was young
I wanted more than anything else to be a typical little boy. I wanted
to build tree houses, have water balloon fights, and play hide and
seek with my friends. But fate had it otherwise and all I could do was
envy the laughter and playtime that seemed to be going on all around
me.
I used to think that I was unique in feeling that I was without a
childhood. I believed that indeed there were only a handful with whom
I could share those feelings. When I recently met with Shirley Temple
Black, the great child star of the 1930s and 40s, we said nothing to
each other at first, we simply cried together, for she could share a
pain with me that only others like my close friends Elizabeth Taylor
and McCauley Culkin know.
I would therefore like to propose tonight that we install in every
home a Children's Universal Bill of Rights, the tenets of which are:
1. The right to be loved without having to earn it
2. The right to be protected, without having to deserve it
3. The right to feel valuable, even if you came into the world with nothing
4. The right to be listened to without having to be interesting
5. The right to be read a bedtime story, without having to compete
with the evening news
6. The right to an education without having to dodge bullets at schools
7. The right to be thought of as adorable - (even if you have a face
that only a mother could love).
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world
filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled
with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with
distrust, we must still dare to believe.
To all of you tonight who feel let down by your parents, I ask you to
let down your disappointment. To all of you tonight who feel cheated
by your fathers or mothers, I ask you not to cheat yourself further.
And to all of you who wish to push your parents away, I ask you to
extend you hand to them instead. I am asking you, I am asking myself,
to give our parents the gift of unconditional love, so that they too
may learn how to love from us, their children. So that love will
finally be restored to a desolate and lonely world.
And so ladies and gentlemen, I conclude my remarks tonight with faith,
joy and excitement.
From this day forward, may a new song be heard.
Let that new song be the sound of children laughing.
Let that new song be the sound of children playing.
Let that new song be the sound of children singing.
And let that new song be the sound of parents listening.
Together, let us create a symphony of hearts, marvelling at the
miracle of our children and basking in the beauty of love.
Let us heal the world and blight its pain.
Time flys!
So it's been over a week since my last journal entry and it's been 3 weeks that I've been in China! It's crazy to believe, it's gone by SO fast! They had Teacher's Day Thursday and I got a lamp, flower, card, and a lil rabbit from my students, it was very sweet of them! Then, on Saturday, the school put on a dinner for us with SO much food! I had turtle, pig intestine, fish, my own crab, dumplings, and much more! The turtle was pretty good, I definitely did not like the pig intestine though!! Hopefully I'll get some pictures up soon. They also had karaoke although I didn't sing, everyone that did was a great singer! It's probably a good thing I didn't ruin their streak. :) Anyways, this week classes went better and I've learned what works and what doesn't work but I know I still have a lot to learn. I have become somewhat of a mean teacher but that's what works best, I've also been bribing my students with candy...anything that gets them to talk is good.
This week I made pasta that I had bought from the grocery store and it was fabulous. It was so different to eat with a fork! I'm pretty sure it was the first time I had since I arrived. I really want to start cooking more or going to the Korean cafeteria. We checked that out for the 1st time last week for dinner. It was GREAT, I had some really good curry and a little bit of kim chi that was a bit too spicy for me. Maddy and I also checked the breakfast out Friday morning, I got up at 6:45! Breakfast is early, but it was good too. They had some rice porridge, what I like to call "pound cake", and some sesame bread type thing. Hopefully I can get on their eating schedule. It was early to get up but I was definitely hungry for lunch, they usually eat lunch by noon or so then have dinner at 5 which is all a bit early for me but if I start the day early that should help regulate my eating time with theirs. I'd really like to go to dinner more, it's pretty good and it saves me money to eat there.
We have a holiday coming up, October 1-8 but I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do yet. Apparently traveling so so chaotic during that time so that makes it difficult to decide what to do, I want to do something though. Who knows. I also need to start planning what I will do on my break inbetween semesters. I've been told we have from mid Jan to Feb. 25, and hopefully that's true! I know South Korea is in there somewhere and I can't wait!
Here's to getting in shape!
Madeline and I just got back from a GREAT run, we ran for about 30 minutes! It was a good way to work up some real sweat versus sweating while doing nothing because it's so hot out! We found there's an ecological garden that sounds like it would be amazing, hopefully we'll go tomorrow. I feel so good right now and want to get back into shape and hope to go running at least a few times a week!
School today was alright, I've realized not to expect students to volunteer rather work my way around the room and leave them in their desks so that they will speak up and to the entire class. Before I had them coming to the front of the room but then they would just talk to me and everyone else would talk as well. I'm still not quite sure how to keep them from talking while I'm talking...I need to figure out some really good interactive games I guess.
Well I got myself a new bag/purse today, I had my SIGG in mine and didn't thread the lid right so a bunch of water leaked out and the bottom of my bag was sopping wet! I gave myself my own birthday gift and got a black and white polka dot across the chest bag, its much bigger than my other purse!
Anyways, Leah just called! :)
My address!!!
Here it is, at last:
Jessica Vartabedian
No. 256 Jiyang East Road
Zhangjiagang Foreign Language School
Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, PRC
If I could get your address too that'd be great!
1st day of teaching
Whew, it's been a long day! Woke up this morning before the alarm went off-seems to be happening frequently here, so that would have been around idk 6 or something insane, haven't been sleeping the greatest lately...could be the weird dream I had where a live snake jumped on my head after I squished the guts out of a dead snake...So alarm was set for just before 8. Anyways, showered, got ready, went down to breakfast and had some onion flatbread pizza type thing, some fluff bread (I'm sure there's a real name for it that I don't know, along with oh well pretty much every other thing I eat!), some rice porridge, and a strawberry type juice box. All in all, pretty good, something in my stomach at least! So I had to be at school at 9:30 this morning and we planned on walking since we realized it wasn't too far of a walk, we left at 9 and it was already warm out! Thankfully, it was only about a 15 minute walk! But of course by the time I got here (school) I was sweaty...ugh. Anyways, met up with my co-teacher, Marsha, Chinese native, who teaches some of the same classes but the actual grammar, reading, writing part of English. She led me to this classroom and told me that it was my classroom for all my classes! Great but disappointing at the same time. She gave me my own key for the room which makes me feel like I have some power and like a real teacher actually! But it's disappointing because the classroom lacks technological advances I feel could be helpful to enhancing the students learning. I have a blackboard, that's it. So much for the PPT I had made huh?! But I made do with the blackboard, it was simply intros today, so I told them who I was, my love for sushi, favorite color purple, graduated from Uni of Iowa...asked them to discuss with a partner who they are, what hobbies they have, etc. They then would come up to the front of the room and introduce each other. This went fairly well although I had to pick students to come up since not everyone would volunteer. Some of my classes we had leftover time so I tossed around a little football and had them tell me one fact about themselves, these ranged in "I have a father to I have 6 cousins to I am a boy" :) We also played hangman and I asked students if they could go anywhere in the world where they would go. Some responded with the US, not an immense amount, Japan, Australia, one said home so I asked why and he said "for a rest" poor kid! Another said the park to play, another said Shanghai. This really surprised me that they would choose somewhere so close and nothing exotic. One child even said he wouldn't go anywhere! The last class I had was Junior 3 Class 8, meaning last year of Junior so probably 9th grade, class 8 meaning highest level for that group. They were quite the rowdy bunch, I had to tell them to be quiet a number of times with nothing accomplished in the end, even threatening to send them to the headmasters office! So after my 1st day of teaching, I have mixed feelings. Wiping of the blackboard today I just smiled to myself and felt like a real teacher, thought maybe this is something I'd like to do...but at the same time am disheartened by the whole situation-I am teaching roughly 500 kids. I teach 3-5 40 minute sections per day with 20-25 students in each. I won't be able to know these kids, I won't even know all their names, I just hope they are able to get something useful out of their limited time with me and wish I get to know these students.
On a much brighter note, I now have a permanent (at least hopefully) place to live! We moved all our stuff in about noon, but could not unpack due to classes. So later today I was able to. It's a nice place, I think it's 3 stories. I'm on the 2nd floor room 203. I have my own living room equipped with computer, desk, internet, HUGE shelving unit, full bathroom and good sized bedroom with an amazing air conditioner! It also has a TV, maybe full or queen bed-definitely not the most plush, I would love to get a memory foam or eggshell mattress...Also 2 nightstands and 2 large closets...such a waste I don't have more clothes to fill them! Anyways, I'm exhausted and my back hurts. I don't have class until 10:55 tomorrow but there is a loudspeaker that goes off so we'll see how well I'll sleep through it. Good night!!!
8/25/09
Today was a busy day, Chinese lessons-which im having the time of my life with, talks from experienced teachers, the US consulate and we went downtown and walked around the Bund. We also went to Jujubee Tree, a vegetarian restaurant, and it was delicious, much better than last nights food! After that we saw the most amazing acrobatics show, it was mindblowing…anyways its late and my roommie is trying to sleep…I just wanted to get something in!
1st entry on plane to China
8/23/09 7:17 US time, 8:17 Shanghai time!
So I’m sitting on the plane, listening to Nickelback (of all bands), “If today was your last day” on their channels….saving up my iPhone power I guess…. I’m yawning but I really shouldn’t be tired. I’ve slept pretty much the entire flight with the exception of the last hour or so and waking up. I’m not sure how well that’s going to treat me once we land, which is maybe an hour and a half from now, it’ll be 9:30 or so. I didn’t even necessarily feel that tired but I know my body was exhausted. Having woke up at mmmm drink cart, sorry distraction…so woke up Friday morning around 9 and went to bed Thursday around 1:30 or so I hadn’t gone back to bed until the plane. I slept from Cedar Rapids to Chicago but that’s only a mmm snack cart….haha so CID to ORD is maybe 40 minutes, maybe it’s a food cart, I smell food…I slept the flight from CID to ORD then landing in ORD found out that the plane had been delayed until 3:00 instead of the 10:34 it was supposed to be-frustrating as you can imagine since I landed before 8 AM! Within 15 minutes it was then delayed to 5:00, wooo hooo . Didn’t honestly bother me too much I suppose, I did see if I could get upgraded of course not but instead I got a $15 food voucher so I parked myself at Chili’s for a bit, it was the only sit down that was relatively close and my bags were kinda heavy. The $15 got me a mushroom swiss burger, fries, lemonade and a water to go pretty much, it was only $1.03 charged to me…So before I went to Chili’s I took a nap, it was maybe 2 hours, 10ish-12ish. I found 4 open seats so that worked pretty well, I put my one bag under my knees and the other bag under my head, put my earbuds in and that was it…I think its breakfast they’re serving, I see yogurt so far…I’m hungry! The dinner when we first got on was eh…chicken, rice, veggies, although the chicken was chewy/fatty at times so I didn’t eat a couple pieces, the salad was good, it was sesame ginger dressing and some good green pieces…”turkey sandwich or veggies w/ noodles, arrival time 9:45” def getting the turkey sandwich! So it was okay food, a really good oatmeal raison cookie thing but yeah other than that it was no Osaka sushi that’s for sure…Its’s food though! The food cart’s almost too me….yum yum…. 7:29 US time
9/5/2010 3:05:31 AM - 002085583921
hehe thanks! I did have an awesome cake and had the longest noodles so I will have a LONG and happy life. We just celebrated last night :) I will try and post a video of everyone singing happy birthday in Chinese so you can take some pointers lol :) xx
9/2/2010 5:09:05 AM - 002003517236
Happy Birthday to you!! I wish I could sing to you in Chinese, but I think that would sound really bad. :p I hope you get a big Chinese cake and eat a bowl of noodles for a long and happy life! Hope your day is wonderful, and have fun celebrating! Lots of love and big hug!!! xx
3/18/2010 11:20:24 PM - 003023988607
Hey, I have partied at your place years before you moved there! I taught English in china, based in Shanghai (lucky me) but I had friends all over the region. My friends that worked in ZhangJiaGang had an OK time; not great, not bad. The ones who decided to stay longer in China moved to Shanghai or to Suzhou. Sorry, didn't mean to be annoying, just to let you know that possibilities are endless should you decide to stay in China or experience another region. I hope you make the most of you time there, I have such great memories...and the party at your house followed by karaoke and clubbing downtown (yes, at that club with the neon-lit dancefloor) was funfunfun! All the best!
1/3/2010 6:22:34 AM - 001059573757
Sorry I haven't responded to your email. I was getting over the flu. I hope your new year will be great!
10/15/2009 4:26:57 AM - 002087793972
Yo Jess,
I checked out your pics from the vacation. Way cool! Is that temple that you visited a Buddhist temple or just a historical site? I think my favorite pics are the ones on the mountainside with the blue and violet lights. Either it was morning or evening. Very beautiful either way. I sent some time in Wuxi also, but I visited a park where they reenacted famous historical battles on horseback. Good times. See you soon. I’m thinking about heading your way this weekend if y’all are down.
10/3/2009 9:42:51 PM - 001040337604
Hope you're having a great break and the hike went well!! Miss you!
9/22/2009 5:41:32 AM - 002087793972
Kick ass site. You've way more pics than me...or at least better pics. I'll read up on ya blogs
9/16/2009 5:38:39 AM - 002085583921
Hey ladies! Thanks for all the comments in my guestbook, I miss y'all! I am having a great time, hopefully fall semester isn't too hard. Work is good, the kids are very sweet at times! Hope to talk to all of you soon!! I have skype so feel free to add me :)
9/14/2009 3:15:53 PM - 002088803178
Hey! Jessica! It's Raina! I really miss ya! I am glad you look having a good time in China!! :) I will visit to your website soon again!! Anyway, how is your work?:)
9/12/2009 5:34:55 PM - 002087573222
Wow jess looks like you're having an amazing time! So glad to see that you're enjoying yourself. Talk to you soon I hope. Love you!
-Jaimie D
9/9/2009 4:45:08 AM - 002087623733
Hey!!!! this is chanmin :-) wow in picture, you looks good!! that's great! my mail is junmin614@naver.com and my skype ID is junmin614 :-) I miss you really~ Iowa city which there is not you is really bored. and Fall semester is too hard :-(