Wednesday, November 18, 2009

A Little Background On This Trip/This Blog

In August 2009, our youngest daughter (Staci) and her husband (Martin) embarked on a 9-month adventure teaching English in China. The program in which they are participating is described on its web site and provides accommodations, a monthly stipend and reimbursement of air fare. They were placed at a senior high school in the outlying area of Shenzhen, a city of upwards of 14 million people, in southern China directly north of Hong Kong. This google map link will help you understand the geography of their placement -- you can use the controls to change to satellite view and to get a closeup view of Staci/Martin's campus. The school houses about 4000 students who reside at the school on weekdays.

Staci and Martin have been having an incredibly wonderful experience with lots of opportunity for travel -- and have been keeping us informed with their own blog - linked here and frequent Google video chats (they have a private office at the school with computers and high speed internet).

Shortly after their placement, we made plans to visit. We depart November 30 and return on December 21. We will be using this blog to give more details about our planning for and accomplishing this next adventure.