Monday, July 5, 2010

Off to China


Well, this trip has been a long time coming. I would like to thanks my principal Julie, supervisor karen, mentor Stacey, and cooperating teacher Kristin for helping me to get there. I also need to send a big thanks to my friend Sage, who is also going along with me. She was so wonderful in my interview and application process. Tomorrow, or should I say later today, I leave for Wuhan China. I leave from Port Columbus at 3, have a 6 hour lay over in Chicago Ohare, and then get into Bejing China at 11:55pm on July 7th. Thus, about 21 hours of travel! No worries, I have lots of things to do! I will spend a few days touring around with the 28 other American teachers in Bejing, and then take a train to Wuhan for the English and Culture Program. Once there, I will teach the same 3 lessons about 10 times to about 300 Chinese college students. My topic will be American music history and I will also be teaching two extra curricular activities including a leadership training course and a flash mob! On August 1st I will head off to Thailand where I will spend 9 days visiting my Peace Corps site, taking a short trip to my favorite city of Chinag Mai, and visiting lots of dearly missed friends! I am pretty proud of myself for packing. My checked luggage only weights 40 pounds! I am currently a swirl of emotions...excited, nervous, happy, and missing friends and family already. Today has been crazy. I finally finished moving into my new living arrangements and cleaned the house, only to discover my flash drive with all of my teaching powerpoints was completely gone. So I had to run out, get a new flash drive, and upload everything onto it. Then, I took Georgia, my cat, over to my mom and dad's where she will spend the month. She was not at all happy about this and left me with a few parting scratches to remember her by. At any rate, I will end this by saying I will miss everyone and check out my blog every couple of days to see whats going on. I will try to update it as often as possible! See you all in August!

4 comments:

  1. Have fun Wesley. Enjoy the journey! I wish I was going!

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  2. Hey Wes, it's your cousin Jill. I've never done this b4 so I have no idea if I'm actually posting a comment or not!!! lol

    Anyway, if you do get this, make sure you have a canolli good time!!!! love you

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  3. Miss you already love! :) Have a fantastic time.

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  4. Velvet made the trip to China several years ago so the long travel seemed about right. They lost her luggage on the way but it did finally get to her. She has 2 more weeks in Slovenia and she will do a quick trip to Ohio before heading back to Texas. Enjoy your trip. I am retiring so my summer vacation will go on a bit longer this year.

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