My new home.

The first few nights here consisted of many trips to the grocery store filling up on little necessities.  Stuart, Siobhan, and I looked rather like a bunch of freaks as the only white faces in a sea of Chinese people.  The people are mostly curious, but the stares do get [...]

Hello Suzhou Blue Tassel School

Welcome to our posh private school on the outskirts of Suzhou.

So much going on!  The place is nice, almost too nice.  I don’t think this is really what most of China is like, but …

The school looks pretty amazing.

Spacious grounds …

Yangshuo Day Nine. Training Ends. Off to Suzhou Tomorrow.

Saying my goodbyes to my friends at Old Beijing – our local dumpling place.

Celebrating with friends at the fanciest restaurant in Yangshuo …

The view from the restaurant was pretty spectacular.

The food never stopped coming to our tables.  [...]

Yangshuo Day Eight.

Live teaching practice.  Ugh.

Journey to Moon Hill with Philippe, then swimming in the Yi Long River.  Legs are like jello.

Biking to Moon Hill, the highest point in Yangshuo.

Pushy ladies trying to sell us water all the way [...]

Yangshuo Day Seven.

More training on how to handle a classroom with 70+ students.  Bring it.

Preparing my first lesson plan for English students here in Yanghshuo.  Looked up to see a spider the size of my fist on the wall three feet away from my head.