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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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Tagged C.I.T., Changzhou, China, chinese language, communicate, communication, context, Dà xué sheng, ESL, ESL blog, FAO, foreign teacher, FT, Jiangsu, Lǎo shī, Mandarin, policies and procedures, student, teacher, teaching esl, team-building, xinbei, 大学生, 老师
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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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Tagged China, Chinese, chinese language, communicate, communication, ESL, ESL blog, foreign teacher, FT, green spaces, Jiangsu, Mandarin, Sunshine Garden, teaching esl, xinbei, YángGuāng HuāYuán, yuán, 园, 阳光花园
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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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Tagged bath house, Buddha, Changzhou, China, Chinese, chinese language, communicate, communication, ESL, ESL blog, face, fàndiàn, foreign teacher, FT, Jiangsu, Mandarin, restaurant, shrine, teaching esl, xinbei, 饭店
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Appearances are Important
Changzhou is not famous in the same sense that Suzhou, Hangzhou or Nanjing are in the province of Jiangsu, yet it is a city that is trying hard to become more beautiful, more friendly and more modern. While we were … Continue reading
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Clothes Washing and Traditions
For all of its modern appearances, there are numerous opportunities to still find old traditions still in use in China. For example, this woman is on her way to her clothes washing spot on the side of this small lake … Continue reading
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Tagged C.I.T., Changzhou, China, chinese language, communicate, communication, ESL, foreign teacher, FT, Mandarin, on-line language lessons, teaching esl, xinbei
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Filling in Time Usefully While Waiting
This is the view from just inside the east side entrance to Sunshine Gardens, the housing and apartment gated community in which we lived last time we taught at C.I.T. and where we will return in late August. The apartment … Continue reading
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Medical Health Form
This is a detail from the entrance to the XinBei (新北) campus of C.I.T. (常州工学院). There are basically four buildings in which teaching is done on this campus as well as performance and music centre, library, dining hall and dormitory buildings. … Continue reading
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Tagged C.I.T., Changzhou, China, Chinese Embassy, FAO, Foreign Affairs Office, FT, health record, medical form, teaching esl, visa requirements, xinbei
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Avoiding the Middle Man and Recruiters
On the first full day in Changzhou, two of the workers in the Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) took us on a tour of the downtown area of the city so that we could open up a bank account as well … Continue reading
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