My spouse and I are in China for a volunteer teaching assignment. We arrived in Nanning two days ago.
Our team spent the entire day yesterday doing our training and getting ready for our teaching assignment. We will be teaching English to students in rural China for the next two weeks.
Today, we left Nanning and took a five hour bus ride into the rural part of China.
Our charity organization has been involved in charitable activities for the past twenty years in the remote rural part of China helping poor students and families.
Isolated by mountain ranges, the province of Guangxi is one of the poorest regions in China. Children living in this region have tremendous difficulty getting to school for a proper education.
Some have to walk hours to go to school; some stay home because of this.
The CRRS organization chooses to do its work in this region where the needs are the greatest.
We passed by huge mountain ranges and were awed by the beautiful mountain scenery. The bus went through numerous tunnels opened up recently by the government.
I was in this region in 2009. This time I could see improvement in the living condition of the average people.
It was evident that the government has invested a lot in building infrastructures such as tunnels through the mountains and roads connecting the various villages and towns enabling easier road access for area residents to the outside world.
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| Our five hour bus journey took us through spectacular mountain scenery in the province of Guangxi, China |
At around 7:30p.m. we arrived at the hotel where the English teacher from the local high school was waiting for us.
We walked to the school in the rain and the school held a reception for our first night d there. We met the principal and other school official. I was originally seated at the VIP table with the school officials but could not stomach the special food served there, so I was changed to another table.
We are pumped up and excited to meet with the students the next day!
R.T.
Director - TECA
Toronto Education &
Communications Associate
Volunteering in
Guangxi, China
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