Well, as I mentioned in my last post we were hoping that our visa nightmare would end on Monday. We got up at 6:00 Monday morning and headed to the consulate for a fourth time. The traffic is usually pretty heavy at that time of the day but we managed to get to St. George [...]
Remember what I said about patience in my last post? Well this week was a real test of that important character trait, as we attempted to obtain our visas. Bright and early,eight o’clock on Monday morning we headed for the big metropolis of Toronto armed with all the documents we thought we needed and a [...]
I am learning through this experience the three P’s of teaching abroad – planning, paperwork and patience. Planning – It takes a lot of planning before making a trip abroad for such a long time. You have to plan how to keep things running smoothly at home with your house,car, medical and financial affairs. Our [...]
Beijing is China’s second largest city after Shanghai with a population of over seventeen million people. The little town of Baldwin where we live has about three thousand, so to say we will experience culture shock is an understatement! One of the things I know we will miss are the wide open spaces and the [...]
Finally!!! We have our tickets for our flight to Beijing. I was waiting to hear when school started and I received an email from Wang Yue (Patty) at the Beijing Foreign Language School who informed me they start on September 7. I then bought our tickets with Air Canada to fly out of Victoria, B.C. [...]
