View from my window of the court yard
And another...
Sunrise through the smog
Walk up to the High School
High School court yard
We're late for class...
There's nothing like 70ish people in a small room
Flag raising is every Monday
4000 high school students assemble independently
Chinese Art class
Ready for the students
Another entrance way
This school is so large!
Mmmm Spicy beef for lunch!
Lotus root is so yummy! It's a similar texture to celery.
It's a wild Justin!
I love seeing flowers in early March
A nice park... for the staff
Pineapple on a stick!
All the babies are so poofy
Walking with 'Bear Grills'
Yum!
"More tea please"
Fish eyes for diner!
So much food!
Wuhan City Lights“We woke up at about 7am, showered (mine had no curtain) and ate breakfast. We had a typical Chinese breakfast with beef noodles, an egg, and banana. After eating we were driven to school by our host father. This was quite the experience. He was a good driver, but the traffic is crazy and at one point he was driving on the wrong side of the road to get around traffic. It took over an hour to get to Michaela’s school. There are about 4000-6000 students and it is the top school in China. They have a very intense work schedule. They have class and class work from 7:30am to 10pm. I can’t imagine being in school all day. The learning is teacher centered, and there isn’t much room for abstract thought. This is an old model of teaching that isn’t used much in the US. All of the students hope to attend US universities.
Once we got to the school we went to her classroom. There are 50 students in her class; there were 21 of us as well. It was pretty crowded for a little while. All of us Champlain-ers stood up and introduced ourselves. After this we did an activity with the students to get to know them better. Music sounded over the loud speakers and 4000 students assembled on their own in perfectly straight lines for the flag raising ceremony. They all broke out in harmony singing the Chinese national anthem once the flag was raised. This was an over whelming experience. I have never seen anything like it. After the flag raising we toured the campus and then left for lunch.
After lunch we went to visit HuaZhong Normal University. We sat in on a Mandarin class. At the school I met students from Zambia, Tanzania, Spain, Slovakia, and the US. We toured the school and then walked down the street to a hotel to have diner. Justin ate a fish eyeball, and Max made the fish ask the waitress for tea. It was hilarious. After this diner we went back to our host families. Mine had made a second diner because we were unsure that we were going to eat earlier.”
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