The Exchange - National Committee on United States-China Relations
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I’m also busy this week taking the<br />
English Department out to a teahouse<br />
and hosting a banquet for my school’s<br />
principals.<br />
“Before I leave <strong>China</strong>, Jack [Joanne’s<br />
husband] and I will be spending a few<br />
weeks traveling to Shanghai,<br />
Hangzhou, Beijing, Chengdu, and<br />
Jiuzhaigou. It will be nice to do a little<br />
more exploring before I leave, but it<br />
will be even better that a good friend<br />
from Colorado will be joining us for<br />
most of the trip!”<br />
Westport<br />
Hua Fang<br />
Westport Public Schools, CT.<br />
happyhuafang@hotmail.com<br />
“Two of our students will be awarded<br />
for outstanding achievement and improvement<br />
in the study of Chinese language<br />
and culture, and I am h<strong>on</strong>ored<br />
that I am invited to give them the award<br />
certificates <strong>on</strong> June 5. A Spanish<br />
teacher is joking that I should get <strong>on</strong>e<br />
for my teaching here . . .”<br />
Sun Hao<br />
Westport Public Schools, CT.<br />
sunhouse50@hotmail.com<br />
so<strong>on</strong>, maybe for good. But anyway, they<br />
can go and visit me in <strong>China</strong>.”<br />
Yangzhou<br />
William D. Br<strong>on</strong>ski<br />
Yangzhou University Affiliated<br />
Middle School,<br />
Jiangsu Province.<br />
br<strong>on</strong>skiw@yahoo.com<br />
“I am in my new school, Yangzhou<br />
University Affiliated Middle School,<br />
just a mile north of my other school at<br />
133 Huaihai Lu. <str<strong>on</strong>g>The</str<strong>on</strong>g>y are w<strong>on</strong>derful<br />
here. My apartment is in a sixth floor<br />
walk-up and it was tedious at first, but<br />
now I am up and down the stairs like a<br />
Billy Goat.”<br />
John Regan<br />
Xinhua Middle School,<br />
Jiangsu Province.<br />
johnmreganiv@hotmail.com<br />
“Home is an interesting word, richer<br />
to me now because of a c<strong>on</strong>versati<strong>on</strong><br />
last weekend in Shanghai. Some<strong>on</strong>e<br />
asked <strong>on</strong> Saturday when I would go<br />
home. Quite automatically, I said M<strong>on</strong>day,<br />
at 3:30. My friend’s jaw dropped<br />
and he said, ‘I thought you were here<br />
until August.’ I said that I meant returning<br />
to Yangzhou; then I realized<br />
that I have been so happy and so comfortable<br />
that I have really felt at home<br />
for many m<strong>on</strong>ths. Is that strange or do<br />
we all slip into that mode”<br />
“We have had several farewell parties<br />
already and I really have mixed<br />
feelings now: I am glad that it comes<br />
to the end at last, at the same time I am<br />
sad that I am leaving the friends here<br />
A Luoyang shoe and hat sales display<br />
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After working as the program assistant<br />
for the Teachers <str<strong>on</strong>g>Exchange</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
Program since January, Carla De<br />
Gregorio took up an internship at<br />
the Office of the Human Development<br />
Report, U.N. Development<br />
Programme, during the summer. We<br />
wish her great success and much<br />
satisfacti<strong>on</strong> in her new positi<strong>on</strong>.<br />
We welcome Charles D<strong>on</strong>ohoe who<br />
joined us in late June, having studied<br />
Chinese language, history, and<br />
politics at Columbia College.<br />
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