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Bloems in China: Long Weekend Recap
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Megan and Jordan Bloem are teaching English for a year at Shandong University of Science and Technology 山东科技大学. These are our stories. Sunday, May 3, 2009. Anyway, it was still great fun to play and there is talk of an all-city tournament with eight teams in a few weeks that we'll probably play in. Warming up before the game. Notice the older guy in the sweater and collared shirt. No one knew who he was, but he went through our layup lines with us and seemed like a nice guy. Posted by Jordan Bloem. Subsc...
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Bloems in China: June 2009
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Megan and Jordan Bloem are teaching English for a year at Shandong University of Science and Technology 山东科技大学. These are our stories. Monday, June 22, 2009. Sorry for the delay in posting about this. The semester is coming to an end in the next 2-3 weeks so we've been busy with schoolwork. Thursday, May 28 was a public holiday in China for the Dragon Boat Festival and since Megan and I do not have class on Wednesday (until recently, my new class. Thank you Tiger Airways. Right inside the main gate, you ...
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Bloems in China: Back in Business
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Megan and Jordan Bloem are teaching English for a year at Shandong University of Science and Technology 山东科技大学. These are our stories. Sunday, May 31, 2009. The lack of posting here for the last month has been caused partly by being busy, partly by lack of motivation, but mostly by China. For reasons unimaginable, they have blocked blogs so I haven't been able to access the blog myself. Well, thanks to the help of a fellow CIEE Teach in China participant from our orientation group, Peter Youngblood.
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Bloems in China: Miscellany
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Megan and Jordan Bloem are teaching English for a year at Shandong University of Science and Technology 山东科技大学. These are our stories. Monday, June 1, 2009. Before I post on some of our more recent events, I wanted to give a quick update on what we've been up to the last month or so. . But pure gold), but it doesn't even say the year on it. The CUBA wikipedia site . Says 2002, for what it's worth. Since the game they have had the second game of the match at the other school's campus and SUST is success...
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Bloems in China: May 2009
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Megan and Jordan Bloem are teaching English for a year at Shandong University of Science and Technology 山东科技大学. These are our stories. Sunday, May 31, 2009. The lack of posting here for the last month has been caused partly by being busy, partly by lack of motivation, but mostly by China. For reasons unimaginable, they have blocked blogs so I haven't been able to access the blog myself. Well, thanks to the help of a fellow CIEE Teach in China participant from our orientation group, Peter Youngblood.
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Bloems in China: January 2009
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Megan and Jordan Bloem are teaching English for a year at Shandong University of Science and Technology 山东科技大学. These are our stories. Thursday, January 8, 2009. This Blog Has Moved. A few people have had trouble accessing this blog, so I've moved it over to WordPress.com. I'm still playing around with the features there, but it seems to have some good potential. The new URL is:. Thanks for visiting; hopefully once we're in China we'll have some interesting content. (We depart on January 30).
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Bloems in China: September 2009
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Megan and Jordan Bloem are teaching English for a year at Shandong University of Science and Technology 山东科技大学. These are our stories. Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Summer Travel Highlights (Part 1: Qingdao, Xian, Yangtze Cruise). 160; . July 15: Arrival of my family in Qingdao. 160; . July 15-17: Spend in Qingdao/Huangdao (smaller town where we live) to show my family the sights. 160; . July 17-19: Go to Xian to see the terra cotta warriors and other sights. 160; . The time spent in ...
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Bloems in China: The Joys of Grading
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Megan and Jordan Bloem are teaching English for a year at Shandong University of Science and Technology 山东科技大学. These are our stories. Monday, July 13, 2009. The Joys of Grading. Every once in a while, however, a student writes something that makes me crack up (. Grading the first part of the exam while students take the second part. The first example occurred during the paragraph writing section of the test. The question my students had to answer was, "Who is an example of a hero? I can't recall once di...
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Bloems in China: November 2008
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Megan and Jordan Bloem are teaching English for a year at Shandong University of Science and Technology 山东科技大学. These are our stories. Sunday, November 2, 2008. After several months of planning and applying, Megan and I finally heard the great news yesterday that we had been accepted to Teach in China with CIEE. November 10: Reply form and program deposit due. December 12: Medical forms due. Novemeber - December: School placement. February 1: Arrival in Shanghai. Posted by Jordan Bloem. Big K Little China.
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