Chongqing air quality= terrrrible. The sky is always grey, the air is so hot that the students were fainting and so the university had to cancel classes. The appartment that was provided for us is roomy and better than I expected. There are many mystery meats everywhere but most of the time it ends up being pork. they freakin love pork, so much that they even put some sort of pork paste on cookies and pasteries. They do not have breakfast foods really...they just jump right into lunch. The food is like WHOA spicy. even if you ask for non spicy guess what you are getting - SPICY - The school does really random loud ass anouncements and theres often Chinese opra waking me up at 7 am. All of the freshman have to participate in military training so I don't start teaching until Sept 18. When we first arrived we had to be under quarentine for 5 days incase we had bird flu and that basically meant we had to stay in the apartment at all times; however, we got bored after the first day and broke that rule basically almost immediately because we wanted to sing karaoke.

All of the students love America! we get stopped in the middle of the street when we are shopping because people want pictures of us. its just like being famous haha. one person actually asked me to sign her arm. its just bizzare. They are all very eager to learn and are all very friendly. Im excited to start teaching them, but they are all at different levels of English some can barely speak and others have been studying english for ten years.

They play a hell of a lot of basketball and bad mitten. We have a height advantage and for that reason only is how we win games.

You know how you hate going car shopping bc the sales ppl pounce on you and haggle? well everytime you go shopping for anything thats how you are treated. ten people start shoving items in your face.

chinese beer is pretty good.

Overall all good stuff.

written by  cz74699 on September 13, 2009 from Chongqing, China
from the travel blog: Chongqing, China
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LOL Are you American? Do you teach oral English at a college in Chongqing? I'm a Chinese from the south of China--Guangdong province, I haven't been to Chongqing.Sichuan & Chongqing food are famous for their spicy,but I can't bear it.I hate spicy!

written by  coolflower on September 14, 2009

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CZ - Do they play beer pong? I bet they would get mad if you spilled beer on their ping pong table!

Sounds awesome! Will you see Logan? BTW, you can sign my arm anytime! LOL!

Best regards, Uncle Emmet

written by  Emmet Gemme on September 14, 2009

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They do not play beer pong. The other American girl and I tried to teach them and the boys from the UK how to play but it was kind of a disaster. They have lots of drinking games themselves, one of which is just our rock paper scissors!

written by  cz74699 on September 14, 2009

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