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Jump – Korean Martial Arts Comedy
Today’s post uses pictures found on the website of the Changzhou Grand Theatre. On Thursday evening, we went to the theatre in order to watch this Korean Martial Arts comedy performance. As you can see already, JUMP is a good … Continue reading
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Saturday Afternoon Rambles
When the weather is right, we love going for long Saturday walks. As part of our reward for putting in a lot of kilometres, we enjoy stopping for a bowl of noodle soup, especially at an Ajisen Ramen restaurant, a … Continue reading
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Changzhou – Fashion City
Yes, Changzhou is the City of Fashion, at least for a few days as the exhibition centre at the Changzhou Olympic Stadium finds itself busy with buyers and sellers interested in fashion. It is “brand name” time featuring the top … Continue reading
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Getting Ready for Halloween
Yes, Changzhou is getting ready for Halloween too. Well, the truth be told, it isn’t much of a deal at all. It is more of a store thing and something for kids in schools – no trick or treating in … Continue reading
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Teaching is More Than Students in a Classroom
This is Violin, our co-teacher. No, she doesn’t always dress like this. Here, Violin is taking part in a dance competition at the main campus. With more than a thousand Chinese college instructors on campus, there are a lot of … Continue reading
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At several parks in town roller blade lessons are the happening thing for young people. We see these lessons at Renmin Park near the city centre, Xin Bei Park near our apartment, and in the square in front of City … Continue reading
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Learning From Co-Teachers
Last night we took our co-teachers out for a dinner. Typically there is a co-teacher for each foreign teacher. But this year, due to a number of other circumstances, there are four co-teachers being shared by the seven English-speaking foreign … Continue reading
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Interactive ESL Lessons
Teaching ESL at the university level is very satisfying as it is so easy to find something to talk about with the students. They are old enough to have some life experience, even if they don’t have the English words … Continue reading
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San Jing Primary School – SanJing Xiao Xue – 三井小学
This is a grade four class at San Jing Primary School, one of the new “key” schools in Changzhou. The teacher here is Sarah. She is our contact person at this school for all of our needs as well as … Continue reading
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17th Jiangsu Games
Last night we went to the opening ceremonies of the 17th Jiangsu Games. We got picked up by people from the FAO who were the ones to “gift” us with the tickets to the event. We walked down to the … Continue reading
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