Out the Window of the Changshu Education Bureau

Out the Window of the Changshu Education Bureau. Weather is heating up, about 25 degrees. 

Working Hard at the Final Forum

Mrs Arnott and myself, working hard at the final forum, sharing our plans for future work with all schools.

Meet our class

Meet our sister class.

Teaching Football

Today Mrs Arnott and myself took a football lesson.

Rural School, number 2 on our tour.

Visiting Rural School Number 1

Night Market - Old City

The Master of the Net Garden

Rollerblading in Changshu Mall (Saturday Night)

Visiting KFC

Visiting KFC in the outer clothes shopping districts of Changshu. Like Chaddy x100+. So big you can drive your motorbike inside.

Crabs for dinner

Taken out for dinner by the English Teachers

Changshu Principal Forum

Sitting at the Principal forum. Mrs Karen Cain (Gippsland's Acting Regional Director) is telling the Chinese Principals about how schools work in Victoria and Gippsland.

Playing Table Tennis

Playing table tennis with students from grades 1 to 6 at Taqian Primary School (Changshu, China)
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Driving home at night in Changshu

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Pickup Time

This is a group of Grandparents waiting to pick up their Grandchildren from school, in one of the school gardens.

IT lesson

This was the IT class we went to today. 60 computers, hot room but great lesson on photo editing.

Feeding 2000

This is my lunch today. As well as 2000 others at Changshu :)

Old McDonald had a farm Chinese English class (Grade1)

Off to school

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Yucheng Hotel

Yucheng Hotel

YYucheng Hotel is located in Changshu City, Jiangsu Province, is located in the ancient city of Fengjing River, adjacent to Changshu First Street - square tower East Street, the heart of the business district and financial street in close proximity, both the deep cultural heritage with a modern features four-star tourist hotel.

The hotel has sleek, crisp, magnificent lobby, elegant. From the main building, VIP floor building, the height of 16-story main building, VIP floor of 12-story, 280 sets of different styles of rooms, room facilities, central air-conditioning systems, fire alarm systems, broadband networks, high-definition LCD TV , personal safe allows you to feel valued; restaurant area of ​​nearly 3,000 square meters, 24 different styles of boxes, luxury West restaurant, it has undertaken various banquets, chefs, a blend of Chinese and Western cuisine, flavor Arts extraordinary "Four words are more fully summarized the hotel's rich food and beverage heritage; 6 professional meeting rooms for your intimate reception services; complete hotel entertainment facilities: Moulin Rouge nightclub, Beihai Silver Beach footbath clubhouse, gym, chess room, beauty salon, business center, shopping malls, and so will you soon memories.

Yucheng Hotel opened in 1990 and fully renovated in time: 2012, has won the "Chinese Restaurant" the national gold leaf green tourist hotels "," excellent catering enterprises in Jiangsu Province, Suzhou service brand name ", Suzhou Tourism Best Management Award "title. Improved facilities, perfect service, is bound to become your business, conferences, travel for the best place to stay.

http://www.yuchenghotel.com/cn/info.html

Presenting at the Changshu-Gippsland Education Forum

Learning About i-Earn

iEARN is a non-profit organization made up of over 30,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 130 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 2,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide.

Morning in Changshu

Here is a photo at 6.40 in the morning , as Changshu wakes up. Today we will leave the hotel for the dat at 8:30 AM, to take part in sessions at the Education Bureau.

Arrived at Shanghai Airport

Have arrived at Shanghai Airport and are now on a bus heading to Changshu 2 hour trip. When we arrive we got straight to a welcome dinner, hosted bu Changshu Education Bureau.

Inside the BeiJing 3E international school

Waiting in traffic

Off to the 3e International School

Today we have left our hotel in Bejing and are by bus to the BeiJing 3E international school.
www.3eik.com/

After this we head to the airport and catch a plane to Shanghai, the on another bus to Changshu. After hopping off that bus, we head straight into a welcome dinner put on by the Changshu Education Bureau. Big day ahead.

The Great Wall (a video from me)

The Great Wall

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A little to pick for lunch

Climbing the Great Wall

I walking about 2.4km today on the Great Wall to get a geocache. A 1/3 was about 60 degrees up or down.

Looking down the Valley

Cable car upto the Great Wall

Looking Down the Great Wall

Our Group on the bus to the Great Wall

Beijing wakes Up

Just after 6.39AM in the morning here in Beijing. is a video of the view outside my hotel window. Today we are travelling by bus from the hotel at 8:30 AM and going north to the great Wall of China. While on the great Wall of China I hope to Skype with my classroom at Labertouche Primary School.

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Motorbike Acrobatics

Ducks Tongues or Sweet Chilli Cod for Dinner

Acrobats Driving

Acrobatics World

Under the Gate

Outside the Gate

Cooking Lunch

At the hotel

The Forbidden City

Today I am visiting the Forbidden City which was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China, and now houses the Palace Museum. For almost 500 years, it served as the home of emperors and their households, as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government.

Built in 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 buildings and covers 720,000 m2 (7,800,000 sq ft).[1] The palace complex exemplifies traditional Chinese palatial architecture,[2] and has influenced cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and elsewhere. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987,[2] and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.

More Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_City

Finally reached Beijing

After being on two planes and two buses, we finally reached the hotel in Bejing at 4am Melbourne time, 1am local.

Hotel Jianguo Bejing

Hotel Jianguo Bejing

Jianguo Hotel Beijing is the first international hotel in China since 1982 and the only garden hotel in Beijing CBD. Jianguo Hotel Beijing is China’s first Joint-venture hotel. Its unique decoration and design, as well as its strong service culture, have made it the city’s leading brand hotel, attracting guests from all over the world.Location

Jianguo Hotel Beijing is situated adjacent to the Beijing diplomatic quarter, in the heart of Beijing Central Business District, just 1 minute walking distance from the metro and 5 minutes walk from the famous Xiushui Market. By car, 10 minutes from Tiananmen Square and Beijing’s numerous historical sights and 30 minutes from the Beijing Capital International Airport.

http://www.hoteljianguo.com/album.html

Last stop Smiggles

AEF Gippsland China Study Tour