Photos from China in 1999

We moved to China in August 1999 and taught English at Xiangtan Polytechnic University, a small college in Hunan Province. The college is several miles outside of the city, and is surrounded by farmland.

We taught English. The kids enrolled in Chinese school.

Anne teaching 9th grade class

Tim with Oral English class

Seventh-grade students in military dress

Tariqa and kindergarten at field day

A few day-trips with the teachers

Taalan and Tariqa on statues at island near Yueyang

With Zao Hedong at historic tower in Yueyang

Mr. Tang on top of Heng Shan, a sacred mountain

Temple and smoke from firecrackers at Heng Shan

Farmland surrounds the college

Neat farmhouse with fall garden

Retruning home after a day of hoeing

Fall rice harvest, cutting rice

Fall rice harvest, man with shoulder pole

Our neighborhood

Faculty apartments at our college

Cleaning the "park" using shoulder poles

Anne with some neighborhood kids

Hand-made quilts, winter is coming

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