Library Ties

Our last day in China was mostly for travel. Some went out shopping, some slept in, some spent time packing all the stuff we bought, and a variety of other options. I read for a while and then packed. It was pouring down rain, and I wasn’t willing to tackle the weather. It was kind […]

Today was a little calmer. Well…kind of. I started to write this on our bus trip back from Hangzhou to Shanghai, but the bus was going up and down so hard that I couldn’t see the words on the screen. We got up and some of us did a little shopping at the antique dealer […]

I can’t believe we’re at Day 6 already! This trip has just flown by. Of course that could be because we’ve not stopped since we landed. Today’s agenda was we spent the day at the first C.L.A.S.S. school in China - The Affiliated Primary School of Hangzhou Institute for Education Research. We started off with […]

Day 5 we were in Shanghai for most of the day. We started out as typical with breakfast in the hotel. Luckily, there have been some western things like toast and fruit that I can eat! Today’s adventure was a little different. We went and visited a Chinese Health Clinic. Daniel shared there were two […]

The access to wifi has not been very good, so I haven’t had the access to post these each day. So it is possible that they may all get posted when I get home instead. But, they said maybe in our next city (tomorrow) there would be wifi, so we’ll see how that goes. Today […]

Today we headed out a little bit earlier. We left the hotel about 8am and headed towards The Great Wall. As always we started out day with a brief little bit of professional development. Jim talked about how locations can really tie learning together. By making a connection between a topic/object and a location, we […]

So Day #2 kind of overlapped Day #1 since we didn’t really get to bed until 2 or 3am this morning. I am certain I slept some, but by 6am I gave up and got up. The beds in our hotel room are probably the hardest I have ever slept on. Apparently the Chinese believe […]

Well, let’s say the adventure has started right from the start. We were on two different flights to Chicago from Indianapolis. 17 on one flight and 10 on another flight. I was in the second group and we were doing just fine until our flight was delayed and they projected us landing in Chicago at […]

So the adventure begins. We’ve checked through security and our group of 27 is ready to head to Chicago. We’re on two different flights to the Windy City, but then from there we’re all on the same flight from Chicago to Beijing. It’s a 13.5 hour flight going over the north pole. We’ll land at […]

The lights are finally off and the library is ready to take a few months off while the students are off playing (and reading, too, I hope!). We’ll see quite a few “new” things when we return in August as our library is under construction this summer and will be expanding! Yeah! But, that’s for […]