In two weeks, I will be headed to Wanzhou, Chongqing, China! I will be teaching for the next two years at the Chongqing Three Gorges Vocational College. This Monday, I will head there for my site visit. I am lucky, my train only takes 7 hours. Some people going to Gansu will be on the train for 20-30 hours. The city is in the mountains and on the Yangtze river. It is the second biggest city in Chongqing municipality with about 900,000 people. So, it is much smaller than where I am now in Chengdu (14 million people). But, it gets super hot there! All my host family keeps saying is "ooo Chongqing hen re! Chongqing bi Chengdu re! (Which essentially means, Chongqing is way hotter than Chengdu, be careful!) 

Pictures to come :)

 Exploring a Tibetan area outside of Chengdu - It was so nice to see the mountains again :) 

So, this is the most popular song in China right now. You go into any store, a car, or even to the pool to go swimming, and this song is blasting. I think it sounds pretty cool, but my students informed me that "it's not a really cool song to the young people and nobody can really dance like that, but it is definitely the most popular song in China right now, and they just DONT GET IT!" They said they wanted to show it to us so we would understand how interesting Chinese pop culture can be. I thought that was pretty hilarious :) Regardless, I like it! 

Last day of MS = Karaoke sesh!

Last day of Model School = Karaoke Sesh

So for the last day of Model School our final assessment was done through Jeopardy and of course -- since we are in China - Karaoke! These are the songs the students came up to sing, which actually turned out to be amazing pronunciation practice for them. My partner and I were even coerced by our students to get up there and sing and dance to Toxic by Britney Spears. If they had to endure the embarrassment of singing in class, in front of a ton of people.... I guess it was only fair that we did too :)

One of our last days of Model School - English Corner

Last week we finished our two weeks of Model School training. These are our awesome students who were showing us the way to pose for chinese pictures. First, is what looks like a peace sign to us, but actually means victory and the second is the kitten pose :) So adorable.