After four full days in Nanjing, an ancient but modern city of 7
million near the Yangtze River, our students are quite good at getting
around. Thanks to a helpful orientation
by our hosts, they can now navigate by subway or bus to get to various
universities and colleges where they are plugging in to English classes. They can eat quite well with chopsticks,
which is good, since there really isn’t
an acceptable alternative. They’re
finding all kinds of interesting places to eat meals, and our hosts have
noticed how ready they are to dive in and try anything! We are housed in a tall high rise apartment
building near city center; some of the girls are on the 31st
floor. Down below us, we can watch a
busy street filled with all modes of transport.
We’ve had to learn the rules on how to cross the busy intersections. It’s
almost a like a choreographed dance as buses, scooters, bicycles, and
pedestrians all criss- cross at once, but no one bumps into each other.
Our students have already been making friends with Chinese
students in the classes they visit, and even though it’s only for a short time,
good bridges are built between students of two very different cultures and ways
of life.
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| View from 31st floor |
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| Safe Crossing |
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