We are back in Jinzhou, our home for the next several months. We are starting to feel like high school seniors. The administration treats us like children, but it is okay, because in a short while, we will be gone. The rest of our colleagues have signed on for the next semester. [...]
Let me begin with the conclusion: Josh and I signed a contract to teach next year! We are leaving Jinzhou, our humble, gritty, coal-mining home, and moving to Qingdao, sparkling city by the sea.
In America, Qingdao is mostly known for Tsingtao Beer, but it has so much more than that. The old German architecture is [...]
The more I read of Chinese history, the more fascinated I am with this place. And there is a lot of history to read. My students never let me forget that Chinese civilization is 6,000 years old. I don’t know if they are competing for bragging rights or trying to put me in my place, [...]
It was worse than I could have imagined. We travelled for 16 hours on hard seats, and sometimes without any seats at all, and we lived to tell the tale.
Let me start from the beginning. When we got to the train station, Josh figured out how the lines were moving and he figured out the [...]
Emily, Joshua and Artemis now live in Philadelphia, PA. They used to live in Qingdao, People's Republic of China.
Monthly Archives: May 2006