Trip: Nanjing, China - Part One
There are [35] stories from my trip: Nanjing, China - Part One
CHINA | Saturday, 12 Sep 2015 | Views [1388] | Comments [2]
Thought I would write about my school and classes in a little more detail now that I have finished my official first full (a little more than full) week at Jinling High School, Nanjing, China. You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinling_... Read more >
CHINA | Sunday, 30 Aug 2015 | Views [404]
This is a tough one to write about because it invokes all the horrors of war and the brutality that humans can inflict on others. It’s especially difficult having great friends – both Chinese and Japanese – and trying to stay out of ... Read more >
CHINA | Sunday, 30 Aug 2015 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Wednesday, 26 Aug 2015 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Wednesday, 26 Aug 2015 | Views [340] | Comments [1]
School is scheduled to begin next Tuesday - September 1. I will have two preps and five groups of students: Three sections of the first year students (Senior 1's: Senior high school, first year) for their Dramatically Speaking class which meets four ... Read more >
CHINA | Friday, 21 Aug 2015 | Views [264]
On a very sultry Friday afternoon, took a trip to visit the tombs of Sun Yat Sen and the first Ming dynasty emporer. Very different. Located on the foothillf of the Purple Mountain. Beautiful sycamore lined streets. We took a tourist shuttle from ... Read more >
CHINA | Friday, 21 Aug 2015 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Wednesday, 19 Aug 2015 | Photo Gallery
Some pix of day to day, etc
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CHINA | Tuesday, 18 Aug 2015 | Views [806]
Nanjing played an important role in one of China’s most devastating movements – the Taiping Rebellion – some of the facts of which may seem frighteningly familiar to other religious revelatory tales.
It’s 1847 and China ... Read more >
CHINA | Sunday, 16 Aug 2015 | Views [308]
Nanjing is a definite kaleidoscope/cacaphony of sights and sounds – there is the constant din of traffic accentuated by horns and shouts – this is backgrounded by the hum and throb of the cicadas throughout the city. On our walk by ... Read more >
CHINA | Sunday, 16 Aug 2015 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Saturday, 15 Aug 2015 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Saturday, 15 Aug 2015 | Views [373]
Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu province and the second largest city in eastern China (after Shanghai ), with a total population of 8.16 million and a urban population of 6.55 million in 2013. The city whose name means "Southern ... Read more >
CHINA | Friday, 14 Aug 2015 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Friday, 14 Aug 2015 | Views [427] | Comments [1]
There is that moment – once your airplane has just taken off – when it has won the battle over gravity and has “taken flight” – that moment when you realize there is no turning back. I am in the hands of this machine and ... Read more >
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