Week 1
It is hard to express this week in words. I’ve written everyday so here’s my week. Pictures will come later 7/16 I could hardly sleep last night. I attempted to go to bed but the combination of a hot room…
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Long Week
This Thursday was the hardest day of volunteering yet. I have had a very busy and long week going to both places to volunteer, waiting really long for extremely crowed buses, long Chinese classes, and studying after it all. So I was particularly exhausted on Thursday. My brain just would…
Elderly Home and School for Autistic Children
After conversing with my Chinese teacher about my volunteer work, I have decided to help out both at the Elderly Home and the School for Autistic Children. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday I will go to the Elderly Home and…
Realizations
After a short time of volunteering at the School for Autistic Children, I realize that this is the wrong place for me to be. It is a good school with a great purpose, but I am not able to really help…
Pre-Departure Pains
I still feel like I have so many things to do. First off, I’m trying to come back in nine months instead of the year I had orginially planned. Note to any future Lumos awardees: check and double check your…
Street Life and Volunteering
I have begun my volunteer work at the school for autistic children! I will be there Monday thru Friday for 3 hours each day. It is really going to be difficult work on many levels. At 1:30pm everyday I will walk to a particular…
Communication with Autistic Children
Below are some questions/phrases that I will use while trying to converse with the autistic children in Kunming, China. These are only a few out of many phrases that I will prepare. I know all these sentences by heart, but I wrote the translation below for those who…
Starting Chinese Class
Yesterday I arrived in Kunming! My flight was 3 hours from Shanghai. I decided that I would try and only use Chinese on my flight. Because of this, I made another friend! The man sitting beside me (his name was Chen Er-jia) saw that…
Finally made it…
After a day of plane rides, airports, loosing my iPod, and making three new friends, I’M FINALLY in China! Shout out to Elliot Holden who I met on my flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles. His trip ended in LA and was only 5…
I’m going to China!
Only FIVE more days until I am on my way to the airport to leave for China! It almost feels like yesterday when I was in China with the Belmont Study Abroad group last summer… I am on the front-right side The total…