After a month living in
Budapest I wrote my very first blogpost about my first impressions. Now that I
have been in Hangzhou for a month, I am going to continue that tradition and
write about my first impressions here. It was no shock to me that this first
month has gone by so incredibly fast. I have been teaching for nearly three weeks and can honestly say that I
am surprised how comfortable I am working with elementary kids. On the other
hand though I am not surprised at all that I am absolutely loving the college
counseling work that I am doing. I will never tire meeting with and getting to
know students at such an exciting and hopeful point in their life. It is fun
getting to see how different they all are and of course it doesn’t hurt getting
to talk about higher education :)
China has been living up to
the expectation of being full of history and culture. In Hangzhou alone there
are countless historical sites and beautiful scenery. We have traveled outside
of Hangzhou for two weekends to Shanghai and Nanjing, and the more I see of
China, the more eager I am to continue exploring. In a country as big as China
and with as many people as it has, the options for travel and people watching
will never run dry. Stay tuned for my series of first impression posts to include Hangzhou (the city itself,) the food, the language and the people.
