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Welcome To C.I.T.
Well, I am continuing in preparing for our next trip to China as I practice writing Chinese characters. Both Maureen and I are focused on this next teaching year in Changzhou as we do our shopping and cleaning the clutter … Continue reading
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Preparations For Teaching ESL
After about a week of getting ourselves acclimatized to Changzhou, it was finally time to begin the work for which we came to China, that of being ESL teachers at C.I.T. The process began with a meeting with the department … Continue reading
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Tianning Temple in Changzhou.
Since I have mentioned Buddha twice as well as temples, I thought it best to show the main temple in Changzhou (常州), the Tianning Temple (天宁寺). The first solo trip into the city using the local bus system lead us … Continue reading
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Green Spaces in Changzhou
Being from Canada, a land that is basically empty of people in many places and where nature runs free, it was important for us to find “green” spaces in the city. As we stretched our journeys beyond the first boundaries … Continue reading
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Bath House or Restaurant?
A week into our first experience of China we began to get a better idea of our new home away from home. As we wandered, always carrying a a camera of course, we continued to discover more and more of … Continue reading
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On Being Understood in China
Not too far from the Xinbei campus of C.I.T. is a lake that was often used by bathers, clothes washing older ladies, and fishermen. This is a scene from August, 2006. When I left in 2008, the beach had been … Continue reading
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