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Making Up Classes from Thanksgiving
The part of my trip back to the States that I would have most likely not mentioned are the make-up classes. When I was home for my brother’s wedding and…
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Happy Birthday Ben Priday!
I was sad to hear that Ben’s birthday was the day after Thanksgiving which was when both Jenny (my teammate) and myself were back in the States for weddings. I…
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Annual Spanish and Latin American Cultural Festival 2015
At first, I expected the Western Languages Department Competition to be this event, but when it wasn’t I was curious when this event would actually occur. This festival (not really…
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Western Language Performance Competition 2015
This day was a true reminder of the importance of communication and relationships as well as how much I still must learn of the Chinese culture. A week before this…
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¡Earthquake!
On September 14th, almost 1 month into teaching, I was about half-way through my 4-6pm class. All of the classes run on a 2-hour cycle, so each class is 100…
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City Team Hiking
Every year at the start of the fall semester, my city team (both at the Yanshan University and my university (Hebei Institute of Foreign Languages) get together from some training…
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A Whole New BLOG!
Do to a number of varying complications and troubles with my last website, I decided to start fresh with a new website and new features. I hope to be able…
