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Trying to decide whether or not to lug 40lbs of books and teaching resources with you to China? Read this first!
There is an incredibly handy (possibly indispensable) library for us volunteers located on the top floor of our PC office in Chengdu. What’s available:
- Teaching resources: Never taught before? Need ideas for activities? Ohmigod I have to teach Pronunciation/Writing/Literature–Now what?! Look no further.
- Language learning resources: Continue expanding your Chinese vocabulary after PST is over, prep for the HSK (What’s the HSK?)
- Recommended books from current and past volunteers: Get a healthy dose of Chinese culture, history, and perspective with books like “The Geography of Thought” and “Red Star over China” Guaranteed to be more helpful than “River Town” (no offense to all you Hessler fans, we all read it too)
- “Bubblegum for the brain”: Murder mysteries and romance novels and other such fluff, for the off chance that you weren’t able to get something better from your sitemate. Read the rest of this entry »
If you’re currently viewing this in China, then you clearly already know how to use a proxy. If you’re planning on coming to China soon, you might jot the following down now…
EDITED 7/5/08: Anonymouse goes in and out, Iphide is kaput, proxychina.org also blocked.
http://www.anonymouse.org – Allows you to view sites like Livejournal, Wikipedia, BBC, Blogger. A pesky ad floats around on each screen, but can be closed without interrupting anything.
http://www.iphide.com – Allows you to view & SIGN IN to sites. Essential if you want to leave comments or make posts in Lj. Has very annoying advertisement page that pops up every time you want to navigate to next page and you have to click “Continue Browsing” to do just that.
*snatched from the Pcchina Yahoo! Group
Hello all,
I’m a China 12 vol. that has a couple of q’s at the moment. To preface my comment, I feel like I will be doing a bit of travelling around China and (possibly) other countries in the area.
Firstly, I’m wondering if a water purifier system would be beneficial. I understand that we will be boiling all of our water beforehand, so I’m wondering about the efficacy about hauling along something like this.
Secondly, will footwear (esp. athletic) be available for a person with a size of 11.5 in the U.S. – or should I just bring the shoes most important for my experience.
Hello,I don’t know if anyone has answered you question yet. So here goes. Peace Corps will provide you with a water purifier, although most volunteers have water delivered, at my school it’s 5 yuan for a 27 Liter container. As far as shoes, I’ve never shopped for athletic shoes but you will have a problem with just regular shoes… especially in Sichuan. I am 9 1/2 women’s, and if I want shoes, I have to go to the men’s section. Hope that helps.M
