Amy's China Adventure

In January 2009 I will travel to China to teach English at a teachers' college in Changzhou City - a city of 4 million about 2 hours outside Shanghai by train. This is something I've wanted to do for some time and I'm leaving a good job to do it - life is too short not to live the "what ifs". This blog is a way for me to share my China experience with friends and family.

Friday, July 3, 2009

Good-bye China

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I’m finally getting around to doing the last blog post for Amy’s China Adventure. I’ve been home now for more than a week. It took about a w...
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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Student Appreciation

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"I want to express my thanks to you for bringing me so much happiness and knowledge." So texted one of my students a few days ago...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

University Life

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One of the questions I asked my Oral English students in their one-on-one interviews this week was "How is university different from hi...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

River Town

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I finally started reading River Town a few weeks ago. I'd never heard of it before coming to China, but apparently it's quite famou...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009

The 49th Parallel

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As a work term student in Germany, I remember feeling indignant when a German colleague dared to suggest that Canada and the United States a...
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Sunday, May 31, 2009

My Least Favourite Word

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I’ve decided my absolute least favourite word in Chinese is laowai , followed closely by the only slightly better waiguoren , which literall...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Please See Me

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My culture students have no doubt come to hate those three little words. Written across the top of their homework, “please see me” means tha...
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