tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74428485549534843162011-07-07T17:52:51.163-07:00This blog is to track my experiences as an English teacher at Wuhan University in China. It is also to explore my experiences going back to Thailand after over 3 years of being away.Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289119503335856613noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442848554953484316.post-8172680064486507732010-07-05T20:34:00.001-07:002010-07-05T21:09:18.072-07:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fHcqrRCFPaQ/TDKsWbj2wZI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/KKJUIvdMI68/s1600/P1000142.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490640397073301906" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fHcqrRCFPaQ/TDKsWbj2wZI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/KKJUIvdMI68/s320/P1000142.JPG" /></a><br /><div>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!<br /></div><br /><div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7442848554953484316-817268006448650773?l=wuhanwesley.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Wesleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289119503335856613noreply@blogger.com4