Quingshui Campus

The Quingshuihe Campus is a 50 minute bus ride from where we live.  It's much bigger than the old campus.  Second semester we taught exclusively at the Quingshuihe Campus.  It's a nice campus but the building are not air-conditioned or heated.  The buildings are also farther apart so it takes longer to move from building to building. The campus was built 5 years ago but the computer systems are still not updated. They are still using the XP running system.

Outside of our teaching building, building C

Ginkgo Trees are everywhere on the campus. The leaves look like butterflies.

Administration Building

Writing on the outside of Administration Building

View from the library

Inside the building where we teach

Another view of the campus from the library

Inside the teaching building

Chengdu Cherry Blossoms, Hot Pot, and Parties

Our friend Lyncy hooked us up with a free tour with Chengdu Daily, a local newspaper. On this excursion we went to a park that was about an hour bus ride from the area where we live.  A bus was chartered, tour guides were provided, and free tickets for everything were given to us. They also provided lunch.  We met people from all over the world, Brussels, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, Belgium, America, and South Africa.  Supposedly, Chengdu Daily likes to advertise and write about all the foreign people in Chengdu. They took lots of pictures and ask us lots of questions.  Now, we're on their mailing list so we'll probably get opportunities to travel with them again.  It's a win, win, because we get treated nicely and they get to advertise us and the sites in Chengdu.

Lyncy and Pete making cards to send home

Beautiful cherry blossoms all over the park

Our tour group was so excited to show us the mobile trailer park. All the trailers were bought and shipped from America

The water at the park was landscaped beautifully

We learned how to make Jiaozi, pot stickers. They were delicious and fun to make.

A flower park where plants, pots, and fresh flowers are sold very cheap.

Some of the friends we traveled with. Lyncy on my left and Granvilles on the right.

I called this part of the park, the Washington Monument look alike.

We were treated royally and even rode a train through the beautiful park.