Hello Team Shanghai,

Our journey together continues even as our exact destination has changed! We look forward to serving as teachers once again in Shanghai as it will be our third year there. We look forward to working with a fine Chinese businessman with whom we have worked before in Shanghai. And we look forward to working with some of our Chinese assistant teachers and students who we know from past visits to China:)

It is time for our teachers to finish writing their lesson plans, copying student workbooks and to start packing! We are counting down the days to our departure… ...read more »

Hello Beijing Team!

We welcome our team and team members’ families and friends to our 2009 Beijing blog!!! We have a wonderful team of experienced teachers and travelers who have worked in China before with BTW. Everyone is dedicated to loving our Chinese campers:) We are looking forward to another amazing experience teaching in China this summer!

Love,
Dale and Louise

On the way to Shicha Hai District, walking through some alleys and we see this beautiful baby :)

Water fight Groupshot With Both Teams

Waterfight Participants at New Bridge

Opening Ceremony at Camp New Bridge

Group Picture At The Forbidden City

Tuesday was such a wonderful day. This was the day we went to the great wall and it couldn’t have been a nicer day. Clear and relatively cool. Everyone took a lot of pictures and many had a good climb. Then on to the Summer Palace.
Finally the Pearl Market and SHOPPING, SHOPPING, SHOPPING.
Wednesday we came to the camp. After the rooms were assigned there was a most encouraging organizational meeting. We’re off to a good start in that regard. However, we simply have not been able to get a blog out because of computer frustration and lack of access to the Internet. ...read more »

Today we found how valuable and important it is to return the passports by certified mail. Yesterday, Sarah Griffin asked where her passport was. We knew that it had been mailed June 5 and that she should have it. It had been sent to Milford, OH. We had a stampted Certified Mail receipt with the Milford post office ZIP code prominately displayed. ...read more »

We just received the last passport for the first session. However, we’re still waiting for a few more for the second session, so trust they will arrive by June 30th.

We encourage all teachers to finalize their lessons plans.

We hope all are using this blog and telling family and friends about it.

JJ