The Xining

Hey everybody!

Been a weird couple of days here at the Practical Training Base of Xining for School Students or the complex as we have come to know it.

Basketball court

Very Pretty

Home Sweet Home...

On Monday we went to Matthew's office in Xining and we talked about his project 'Education for the International Awareness', we think he wants us to introduce new teaching methods to the Chinese classroom and teach the children about British culture. However there is an awful lot of emphasis on the 'WE THINK'. 

The food here is pretty good (the evenings meals are amazing). They don't drink water with their meals here all they drink is green tea, it is strange. Last night I swear I had a gallon of the stuff! They just kept refilling the glasses when you weren't looking!

Yesterday we did some lesson planning, by that I mean we were locked in the computer suite for 3 and a half hours. Planning lessons is difficult as we still don't know what age we are teaching, their ability, how many of them there are etc.

We then had to attend a lecture in Mandarin, very boring and to this day we have no idea what it was about.

Mr ... Chi? (still struggling with Chinese names) We call him the Godfather,

In the evening we decided to go exploring... in the dark. We were given torches by the guards and told to be careful. We found a local shop which is cool and we found a whole load of statues. It was really exciting.

 
I really think we are starting to gel as a group, it is nice :)