Blogs
- Shares Chivalry is Up and Running in China
- Hola, I say hello in Spanish today, because I got asked by one of the students to teach her how to say, "Ni Hao" in Spanish. I felt so cool that I knew, even though most everyone knows. Anyway, as I've been walking around this past week and a half I've noticed how all the guys carry around their ...
- Shares A Buggy + A Moped
- Hey! So today was quite the day. It started off bland, my classmates and I sat in and watched a music class. It got better after we learned chinese caligrophy and got to paint. It got crazy when we made a poor decision on our way to KFC.My friends and Ibegan walking to KFC in a direc ...
- Shares Barking in the AM
- Hey Guys, This morning at 5:00amthere was a dog barking outside my window for atleast 30 minutes. It kept me up all morning and drove me crazy! When I did decide to get out of bed, I realized I had gotten more sick than I was yesterday, and it was quite a chore to get ready for school. I t ...
- Shares 99 cent Break Up
- Hello, Today was my first day in Middle School and it was a blast. I taught the students how to step, told them about my life, and learned about each of theirs. They seemed to really like me, which was perfect because I really liked them. They all think I look like Avril Lavigne, so I decided to ...
- Shares Family Day
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Ni Hao, Today I had the day off from school stuff and it was so nice. I went out with my host family. We went to an acient Chinese town and shopped and ate lunch there. After, we went to the Great Wall of Chengdu. I have some pictures of this that I'm going to put up soon. I got to ride this flo ...
- Shares A Quick Late Night Blog
- Hey Everyone, I am exhausted so tonight's blog is going to run a little short, but I had such a fun day so I do want to share. I went shopping for my family today and found some great souvineirs for almost everyone. This is good and bad. Good because I found things for almost everyone in my fami ...
- Shares It's Okay because I Like the Way it Hurts
- Hola Mi Amor, If only I took Chinese in High School instead of Spanish. I'm getting better at communicating here though, or atleast I think I am. I've learned how to say I don't know, the numbers 1 through 10, my name is Alli, and good night; this is huge progress. Today, we had another performa ...
- Shares My Two Worlds
- Good Night China and Good Morning America! I am just getting out the shower and I am exhausted after such a fun and full day. We performed our step dance for the middle school students today and they loved it. Each class in the school also performed and they were so good. There was one group of ...
- Shares Step Up
- Hello! Today my classmates and I really perfected our step routine, and thank goodness because we will be doing it on television in two days. It was so much fun practicing, but I know I'll be sore tomorrow. We also visited a special education school for children that are blind, deaf, and have me ...
- Shares Good Morning Tara
- Hope everyone is doing well! Today was my second day at the Elementary School and I got to teach all day. I planned my own lessons, so I brought in American books and we played Hangman. They loved hangman, and it is a surprisingly good game to teach English vocabulary. I read them a book about a ...
