Wednesday, April 29, 2009

A little introduction


Not colloquial, but here's some intenerary that I copied and pasted from other emails, finals are pressing.

The Plan

Our plan is to fly from Columbia to Chengdu on May 8. I will arrive in Chengdu on May 9. As soon as I land in Chengdu, I will meet the Red Cross office and travel to Chenjiaba Village in Beichuan County. The Red Cross office will send an officer to accompany us.

 

It will take us about a day to travel to the Chenjiaba Village. Upon arrival, Mr. Chen and I will be assigned to the teacher’s dorm with two tents.  During our stay, I will help the English instructor with classroom program and extra curriculum development.  I will be the oral English instructor for the children from grade one to six.

 

Besides classroom teaching, Mr. Chen and I will be leading group activities in the afternoon and evening. We are trying to connect some schools in the Columbia-Atlanta region with the elementary school in Chenjiaba.  If possible, we will bring letters from school children in America to the children there and help the Chinese children to write back. So far we have collected 385 letters in total, and keeping them close in our travels.

 

We will also be engaging in cleaning up and reconstruction effort in our spare time. We will help clean up the ruins and building temporary housing. We will also help coordinate and distribute donated supplies.