This
may very well be the final post of this blog - we'll see.
School is over and I'm already on my final travels (before I head home). I have visited Xi'an and Shanghai. I'm currently in Nanjing. I'll then be traveling to Seoul, Hiroshima, Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo. I just don't think I'll have time to update the blog
as I'll be very busy city/country hopping for the next few weeks.
If I can fit in a post or two (and get internet access), I'll try.
But this may be the final chapter....
About a week and a half ago, the English department and I when to lunch at a local hotel restaurant in Songping in my honor of teaching and leaving China. It was very nice and the vege dishes were excellent; for the most part - sometimes there can be meat hidden in some of them!
The next morning, I went to school for some final pics of the English department. The English department, as you can see, are all female. I was the only male - which either they really liked (probably) or didn't - not sure. The gentleman to my right in both pics is the headmaster (very quiet, but extremely nice; hardly saw him throughout that the year) - and the lady to my left is my contact teacher (who I went to whenever I encountered problems). I was probably closest to - and worked the most with' the lady to the far right in the 2nd pic. Her English name is Mini and she was really always nice. She said all the students and English teachers really liked me and are sorry that I'm leaving which was nice.
The last pics are the 'Reading Room.' During the first semester, I taught in individual classrooms; basically, I hopped from classroom to classroom for each English class. During the second term, they decided I teach from this room and the classes came to me. I didn't think I would like that at first but I soon realized I enjoyed having my own room. The last pics are of the room I taught my English classes during the second semester.
And that's it, for now! I hope to be able to post new entries. But if I can't, I hope you enjoyed this blog. It was just an experiment when I started, but I enjoyed updating my travels.
Very nice pictures! The rooms are so colorful! Nice to hear that you went out with everyone for lunch - and that they are going to miss you.
ReplyDeleteThis is Duke. Didn't recognize you in the pictures initially, until I realized that you were the tallest person in the groups. I guess the Chinese are a shorter people than we are. Nice that they took you out to lunch as a good bye.
ReplyDeleteAs Janice said, nice colors in the classrooms. Makes learning a bit more fun I would think.
Hope the blog will later contain more pictures of the warriors, as it looks fascinating.
OH HOLY COW ....WHAT A HEADER....I DID NOT THINK IT WOULD BE ROPED OFF LIKE THIS WITH A GUARD....THOUGHT OF A BIG FIELD WITH A GUARD/S.. WHAT A CHINESE TREASURE TROVE. WHAT AN ABSOLUTE DELIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletesaw a bit of the concert and you very good. the kids are so cute. you must be proud...i would be
ReplyDeleteThis is Dad. The video came in fine and was fabulous. The sound was not the greatest so at times it was hard determining if the speaker was speaking English or Chinesse, to include the singing, which was great. Greg, I thought you looked relaxed and confident in your little speech, so it looked great to me.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the header picture, it looks like all of the soldiers are in different poses. So, it's not like the artist used one mold and made a million similar statues; it appears that they are all different. Pretty unbeliveable.