chinese characters
I've started teaching the girls a unit on Ancient China, and I'm so excited to get to share a little bit of the country I spent so much time learning to love. I spent some time going through photos to be able to show them, and the memories came flooding back. I have never forgotten how fortunate I was to have the experience I did teaching English at Dandelion School in Beijing, but even so I was deeply reminded of how beautiful and meaningful - while difficult - that season of my life was. I miss the market across the street from the school, I loved the food every day, I had the time of my life being immersed in Mandarin and also getting to dip my toe in Tibetan, and I had so many adventures on the subways, trains, planes, and buses all over China. But more than anything, the people were what shaped my time there. They are the characters of my story, and they mean so much to me. So today I figured out how to log back on to my Chinese social media app (WeChat) aft...
