Sunday, May 20, 2007

Teaching


Hey Team,


So not to long ago going to China became a little more real. I now know where I will be spending my next year. I will be teaching English at a university in the Guizhou Province in southwest China. Guiyang is the capital city of Guizhou, and it has a population of 800,000 city and 3,000,000 for the whole metropolitan area--so it is right about Seattle's size. I also found out I will be working alongside another teacher and that two other teachers, that work at another university, and a couple and their family (my team leaders) will also be in Guiyang. I have had the chance to email most of them and they are all very nice and most of them have some kind of ties to Michigan or SPU, so you can't go wrong with that.


But things are coming along. I still have some paper work that needs to get completed, as well as many other tasks such as: raising start up costs ($5,000), learning Chinese (I want to at least get "an ear" for it and be able to distinguish between different words before I go), training, getting life organized, oh, and graduating. So that is what I am busy with now, but I am really excited to be going to Guizhou. Oh, Guizhou is home to Asia's largest waterfall and some cool mountains and caves, etc. I just wanted to update with what all was going on though. Once something else exciting happens, I will write again.