Monday Jo-Ann and Joe caught a bus for Xichong—half the hour-long ride was spent getting out of Nanchong, the rest brought us to the edge of this small, prosperous-looking town. Our trio of students here seems to be enjoying the experience in the smallest of our four service schools. Among…
Our third site visit of the week was to Yilong. Located northeast of Nanchong, the region’s terrain has higher hills and deeper valleys than elsewhere in Nanchong Prefecture. As noted several weeks ago, the government has begun constructing a “new” Yilong at a lower elevation some distance south of the…
Upon leaving Nanbu on Monday evening, Jo-Ann and Joe went on to Langzhong, about a 30-minute ride to the north and checked into the same hotel we all had stayed at during our National Holiday excursion to this beautiful city. In Langzhong, our students are teaching in two teams at…
A rainy week of site visits began on Monday in Nanbu. Teaching schedules for our students here are concentrated in the mornings, and by the time Jo-Ann and Joe arrived from Nanchong two of the five students had already completed their teaching days. Each of our students teaches alone, 12…
Five students are in Langzhong, returning to this beautiful city that all of us visited several weeks ago. Students here still remember the SSTers who taught at the same school in 2008.
Located between Xichong and Langzhong, Nanbu is welcoming SSTers for the second time. All five of our students here are living with teacher families, most near the foot of the stairs you see in one of the pictures here. (The school is located at the top of the stairs.)…
Three students are here in Xichong, less than an hour’s drive north of Nanchong. In 2008, SSTers also taught in Xichong but at a different school than where we are this year.
Six students moved here on Saturday. This is the first time we have had students at Yilong and school officials welcomed us warmly. A long and winding road took us into increasingly hilly country northeast of Nanchong. Enroute we passed through the new population center being created for Yilong County…
On the weekend of Oct. 15 & 16, students traveled to their new service locations. All are now safely at the places that will be “home” until Nov. 20. The group is divided among four “middle schools” (grades 7-12) across the northern part of Nanchong prefecture. Here are a few…
Friday, Oct. 14. Language exam is over. We spent all- day at Sea Turtle Center getting ready to enter Chinese middle school (grades 7-12) classrooms to teach English. Can we transform our careless “Whaddya wanna do” to more careful “What do you want to do”? What kind of activities can…
