New Year 2009
Jan 12, 2009
Photos: 60
Holidays 2008
Dec 26, 2008
Photos: 36
Thanksgiving and World AIDS Day
Some pictures from the IST planning conference, Thanksgiving, and World AIDS Day on our campus. Taken in Chengdu, Dingxi, and Tianshui.
Nov 29, 2008
Photos: 41
November 2008
Includes a visit from our Program Manager and a performance night where all the international teachers sang "One Love" by Bob Marley.
Nov 16, 2008
Photos: 38
Early Fall 2008
Nov 1, 2008
Photos: 69
Beginning of Fall Term 2008 and Xinjiang Travel
We went to Urumqi, Turpan, and Lake Tianchi, all in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China (think desert). Captions by Nick.
Oct 6, 2008
Photos: 110
Summer Trips, Part 2: Xi'an
Aug 4, 2008
Photos: 24
Summer Project: Qincheng, August 2008
All Peace Corps China volunteers do a 2-week summer teaching project in the countryside. Here's ours in Qincheng (Qingyang county?), Gansu, China.
Aug 3, 2008
Photos: 88
Summer trips, Part 1: Lanzhou, Tianshui, Chengdu
Jul 17, 2008
Photos: 54
One year in China!
Our most recent pictures
Jun 24, 2008
Photos: 30
The winds of summer
This is the middle of our term (Spring/Summer 2008). It includes break-dancing people, a party, and festival stuff.
Jun 11, 2008
Photos: 22
Spring Mix, Volume 3
More of our developing lives in China.
May 11, 2008
Photos: 55
Spring Mix, Volume 2
More pictures from Spring 2008.
Apr 17, 2008
Photos: 29
Spring Mix
Various pictures of activities, budding trees, Easter festivities, and class planning.
Mar 27, 2008
Photos: 20
New Year 2008
Roman Calendar New Year's celebration in Lanzhou, and pizza making with Fran.
Feb 11, 2008
Photos: 11
Trip to Qin'an
Nick and I went to visit a student's home in a town about 45 minutes north of Tianshui, for lunch and walking around.
Photos: 13
Hiking in Tianshui and Xi'an
See the very famous Terracotta Army, as well as us freezing our !@#$ off.
Sanya and the rest of Hainan Island
From snow to tropics - that's vacation.
Kunming and Dali Old Town
The supposedly warm south. Not this year.
Photos: 21
Lijiang and Tiger Leaping Gorge
The best of Yunnan Province, hands down.
Trip home
How we got 2500 km in 4 days.
Photos: 8
Alison's Birthday and Christmas Day
This is what we did.
Dec 20, 2007
Photos: 19
Christmas party and gifts from family
We had a Christmas party for some of the other international teachers, as well as the Chinese teachers I we know well.
Dec 15, 2007
New English Library Room and Tianshui Teahouse
Our library moved to a bigger room, so we can accomodate more books and more students. We also went to a teahouse to grade papers, and we found Santa Claus there on a stage/ship.
Dec 7, 2007
Photos: 7
Lectures at No. 2 Teacher's College
It's down the street from our college, and they train primary school teachers there.
Dec 4, 2007
Photos: 9
"Coffee English" Radio Recording Session
We had the privelege of talking for about 20 minutes on campus radio about HIV/AIDS for AIDS Awareness Day, which is December 1st each year.
Dec 2, 2007
Photos: 18
Thanksgiving 2007
Our trip to Lanzhou to eat with other PCVs.
Nov 19, 2007
Photos: 12
Maiji Shan visit
Maiji Shan ("Wheatstack Mountain") is outside of our city of Tianshui by 30 minutes. It's in most China guidebooks, as it has grottoes carved in a cliff with over 7000 buddha statues inside. It's pretty cool.
Nov 10, 2007
Photos: 16
Halloween and Daily Life
Cooking, our English library, and a trip to Dingxi.
Oct 15, 2007
Visit to Nan Guo Si and making Chao Mian Pian
Sunday, we visited both a temple on a hilltop and were invited to a students home for a noodle dish made from scratch.
Oct 11, 2007
National Day/Golden Week 2007
Our week off of school, Oct 1st - 5th.
Sep 29, 2007
Goodbye Peace Corps diet ... for now
Here are the packages we received from the U.S. this week! From Aunt Aven in New York and Nick's parents in Florida.
Sep 26, 2007
Last Day in Chengdu and first days in Tianshui
This pictures show a few of our first impressions of Tianshui.
Sep 15, 2007
End of Training and Swear-In
This is an album of our last few days in Chengdu and the Peace Corps swearing-in ceremony for the 13th China group.
Sep 1, 2007
Host Family Appreciation and Last weekend
Aug 31, 2007
Photos: 17
Visit to Tianshui Normal College
Train ride and New Apartment
Aug 19, 2007
Miscellaneous Training Photos
Aug 14, 2007
Site Announcements
We find out where we're headed for the next two years!
Aug 13, 2007
Huang Long Xi ancient town
Aug 10, 2007
QingCheng Shan training field trip
All trainees from the original group of 64 were invited to hike this mountain, the 'birthplace of Taoism' about 30 miles outside of Chengdu to the West.
Aug 3, 2007
Chinese Calligraphy sharing night
The host families and students had a night of culture, that is, them encouraging us and laughing at our inability to paint nice characters.
Aug 1, 2007
Photos: 4
other house and the little great wall
climbing and climbing
Jul 28, 2007
Photos: 15
downtown Chengdu
relaxing before the start of model school
Jul 21, 2007
visit to Luo Dai Ancient Town
Jul 17, 2007
Pre-Service Training for Peace Corps China
Jul 13, 2007
Peace Corps staging/ first week in China
Jul 8, 2007
Photos: 10
Tim Gossett & Brittany Hays wedding/car trouble
The wedding was great. The car trouble turned out to be minor after a few quick decisions.
Jun 23, 2007
going away &tc
Parties, moving, you know.
Jun 20, 2007
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