Well, after an arduous 26 hours of traveling, here we are in China for 10 months of volunteering teaching English and learning Mandarin. We have been here over a week now and I have never felt so overloaded with new information. There are a lot of new and exciting things to explore. Our host family as well as others involved in planning our stay here have been very gracious and patient with us, taking the time to show us around the city and teaching us all sorts of things we will need to know during our time in Nanchong. Mark and I got our class schedules yesterday. We will each be teaching two English speaking classes at North Sichuan Medical University. As well, we will together be teaching a course on "the society and culture of English speaking countries". That one makes me a bit nervous, as we have to lecture two and a half hours each week on things like "the Political System in New Zealand" and "Social Problems in the United States". We were given a text book, but it will be a lot of work to put together the entire curriculum for the year. I hope we can make it interesting. We have almost two weeks before classes start, so we will be hard at work preparing in the next little while!
Lisa
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