Shell in China
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
What does 8 months mean?
8 months can be so many different things and I feel like each day I see if from a new perspective:
***8 months is a third of the way through our service in China, and yet it nowhere near hump-day of the experience.
***8 months is long enough to have survival Chinese skills down pat, and yet nowhere near anything I would consider approaching fluency.
***8 months have been filled with food I would never touch in America (rabbit, tofu, mutton), but short enough to have avoided the worst that is sometimes served up (dog, various bloods and organs)
***8 months has been the foundation of friendships that will last forever (go SNU-cru!) and yet there is so much about one another we are still learning
***8 months means time to travel to parts of China most foreigners never see and to visit villages where we we're perhaps the first foreingers ever but not enough time to have seen the major tourist attractions of Beijing and Shanghai
***8 months has taught me more about China that the first 28 years of my life, but it is also a mere drop in the bucket of what this country is
8 months...
Together Thad and I have survived it and looking down the pipe at another 17 months, I really think that we will just get better at what we do. We have spent the first part of our time here setting down foundations that we hope to build on and when we do leave in a year and a half, hopefully we will be leaving something lasting behind.
8 months down; 17 to go!
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Blog of a Peace Corps China volunteer serving as a TEFL teacher in Cheng Xian, Gansu, China.
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- Name: Michelle Ross
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In America, I teach 8th grade English and reading and really enjoy spending time with middle school students. Some people think I am crazy for it, but Marsing has a great group of kids and I love being a part of their lives as they grow up! Right now I live in China and teach English and teaching methods to students who want to be teachers. I am here through Peace Corps, which I think is a fabulous experience and something that more people should look into doing! The application process can be a bit of a pain, but it is well worth the time and effort. Check out Peace Corps and give something back to the world that has given you so much!! Teaching runs in the family, as just about everyone is involved in education in one way or another. My dad is retired, but he was a teacher, counselor and principal for 30+ years, my mom is an elementary counselor, my sister and husband are both teachers and my brother will finish his teaching degree this next spring! "Those who can, do; those who can do magic, teach!"
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