A True Gap Romance: Lattitude Volunteers Who Met In China Wed
In February 2006 Joanna Warson travelled to China with Lattitude Global Volunteering. Her aim was to teach English at a Senior Middle School in Sihong, Jiangsu province. Little did she know that...
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View ArticleA look at: China
Quick facts Despite its size, all of China is in one time zone. One in every five people in the world is Chinese By the fourth century B.C., the Chinese were drilling for natural gas and using it as a...
View ArticleTeaching
The good, the bad and the interesting As I’m working through a Ladybird Children’s Classic edition of ‘The Railway Children’ in order to find inspiration for a lesson on adjectives and story telling,...
View ArticleA Mountain and a Milk Tea
A typical day spent with my students… Despite the students here being so busy and having weekend classes,there have only been two weekends so far that I havn’t been invited somewhere with them. This...
View ArticleYou are my Sunshine, My only Sunshine
When times are grey… I would say the past two weeks have been the most challenging part of my trip so far, and so although it’s very easy to write about the good times, it’s also realistic to talk...
View ArticleShanghai
Marking the halfway point In the hostel, sitting on a bit comfy sofa with my first cup of tea in two months, I realised the time I am spending in Yunnan only shows me a fraction of China and it’s vast...
View ArticleA Chinese Wedding
Eat and go! This evening we were invited to our second Chinese wedding. I’ll admit, the first time I attended a wedding here I found it a bit of an anti-climax and was surprised to see how casual and...
View ArticleThe Best Students in the World
Always the silver lining As I made my way back from Kunming, Yunnan’ s provincial capital, I felt tired and dejected. I had travelled three hours to see an English speaking doctor and the traffic was...
View ArticleTeaching (Part 2)
Only five lesson plans to go! I wrote my first blog about teaching after I had taught four lessons and I can’t believe I’m now planning my last four lessons for the remaining month here. I’ve noticed...
View ArticleZai jian, Zhong Guo
Goodbye, Middle Kingdom As I’m waiting in the departure lounge at Hong Kong airport, I’ve only just realised that the next time I step off a plane, I will no longer be in China. For those of you who...
View ArticleChina Pre-departure Blog – 9 Days to Go
Hi Facebook Folks and others interested in reading this, For those who are interested, you might be wandering what this blog is about – you’re probably gathered something from the title, but in 9 days...
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