So, you may have been wondering if you would ever hear from that crazy blonde girl who went off to China to teach. Well, I made it, I am safe, and I my suspicion that China would block my all-telling blog was correct. The government has blocked all social networking sites. Facebook, twitter, blogs… it all. As well as google mail, so I am not able to e-mail through google either. My blogs will now be communicated via my mom through e-mail.
I have been here a week and it feels like a month has gone by. I already learned so much and yet I have so much more to learn! I have a two bedroom one bathroom apartment with a guy, Eric, from Tuscon, Arizona. He is very nice and extremely helpful. We did some sight seeing in Fuzhou because his mother was here for a week visiting. We went to a temple park area next to one of the many sites of Fuzhou University. We call it University Temple because of its location. It was incredibly beautiful; they had many different statues and the two largest jade Buddha in all of China. My camera died about half way through, so here is one from the beginning of the park I live right across from this gigantic tourist spot, Westlake Park (Chinese pronunciation: she-who). Apparently tourists from all over China come to Fuzhou to visit this spot. I haven’t seen many foreign tourists though. To be truthful… I haven’t been in the park yet. It is insanely warm and we are not even into summer time yet. At the time of writing this, 10:30pm it is 80 degrees with 90% humidity. Very warm… all the time. I live right across from this gigantic tourist spot, Westlake Park (Chinese pronunciation: she-who). Apparently tourists from all over China come to Fuzhou to visit this spot. I haven’t seen many foreign tourists though. To be truthful… I haven’t been in the park yet. It is insanely warm and we are not even into summer time yet. At the time of writing this, 10:30pm it is 80 degrees with 90% humidity. Very warm… all the time.
This blog can get very lengthy seeing as I haven’t written anything yet. I will leave you for now with one story that wraps up pretty much how my year will be. On my third night in Fuzhou, I went to Thai restaurant. We started at a four-person table and had to be quickly moved to a private room with a gigantic table in the middle. I went with only two other teachers from my own school and I was meeting a few of their friends. Going around the table... Me, a girl from Colorado. Alex grew up in NY and has been in Japan the past two years. Sam, born in France, grew up in England. Then Sarah, a Thai-British born university teacher. Ian, the young (arrived in Fuzhou same day as me) British teacher. Norm, the older businessman turned teacher from Canada. Siska, our host, an Indonesian woman working for a French company. Her husband, an Indonesian little person working in the same company. Their boss and actual Frenchman (can’t remember his name) but he married a Chinese woman and she was sitting next to me.
Whew… if you can follow that mess of people, where they are from and all of the different places I mentioned that sums up my experience so far here in China. Confusing, too much to remember, TONS of very interesting people who are extremely nice and yet an incredible experience that I am sure I will not forget. I hope you all are doing well.
So, you may have been wondering if you would ever hear from that crazy blonde girl who went off to China to teach. Well, I made it, I am safe, and I my suspicion that China would block my all-telling blog was correct. The government has blocked all social networking sites. Facebook, twitter, blogs… it all. As well as google mail, so I am not able to e-mail through google either. My blogs will now be communicated via my mom through e-mail.
ReplyDeleteI have been here a week and it feels like a month has gone by. I already learned so much and yet I have so much more to learn! I have a two bedroom one bathroom apartment with a guy, Eric, from Tuscon, Arizona. He is very nice and extremely helpful. We did some sight seeing in Fuzhou because his mother was here for a week visiting. We went to a temple park area next to one of the many sites of Fuzhou University. We call it University Temple because of its location.
It was incredibly beautiful; they had many different statues and the two largest jade Buddha in all of China. My camera died about half way through, so here is one from the beginning of the park
I live right across from this gigantic tourist spot, Westlake Park (Chinese pronunciation: she-who). Apparently tourists from all over China come to Fuzhou to visit this spot. I haven’t seen many foreign tourists though. To be truthful… I haven’t been in the park yet. It is insanely warm and we are not even into summer time yet. At the time of writing this, 10:30pm it is 80 degrees with 90% humidity. Very warm… all the time.
I live right across from this gigantic tourist spot, Westlake Park (Chinese pronunciation: she-who). Apparently tourists from all over China come to Fuzhou to visit this spot. I haven’t seen many foreign tourists though. To be truthful… I haven’t been in the park yet. It is insanely warm and we are not even into summer time yet. At the time of writing this, 10:30pm it is 80 degrees with 90% humidity. Very warm… all the time.
This blog can get very lengthy seeing as I haven’t written anything yet. I will leave you for now with one story that wraps up pretty much how my year will be. On my third night in Fuzhou, I went to Thai restaurant. We started at a four-person table and had to be quickly moved to a private room with a gigantic table in the middle. I went with only two other teachers from my own school and I was meeting a few of their friends. Going around the table... Me, a girl from Colorado. Alex grew up in NY and has been in Japan the past two years. Sam, born in France, grew up in England. Then Sarah, a Thai-British born university teacher. Ian, the young (arrived in Fuzhou same day as me) British teacher. Norm, the older businessman turned teacher from Canada. Siska, our host, an Indonesian woman working for a French company. Her husband, an Indonesian little person working in the same company. Their boss and actual Frenchman (can’t remember his name) but he married a Chinese woman and she was sitting next to me.
Whew… if you can follow that mess of people, where they are from and all of the different places I mentioned that sums up my experience so far here in China. Confusing, too much to remember, TONS of very interesting people who are extremely nice and yet an incredible experience that I am sure I will not forget. I hope you all are doing well.
Another teacher, Ben and I playing pool