me
latest sighting
2005 August 1st
Guannan, Lianyungang County, Jiangsu Province

I taught Chinese English teachers from Guannan High School for a week this
summer.
The high school teachers took me out for dinner after class one night.
other miscellaneous pictures
Teaching Baseball
Hey, it looks like fun and games but REALLY!, there is a good American idioms English lesson in teaching my students about baseball.
"Up to bat", "Two strikes against you", "Hit a home run", "Grand Slam", "the bases are loaded", "full count", "bottom of the ninth", "to strikeout", "to throw someone a fastball/curveball", etc. You don't realize how many expressions from baseball we Americans use in our everyday English until you try to find justification to
devote an entire lesson to baseball.(Yes, that's a beat-up old broom in my hand. It's all I could get my hands on.)
2002 June
For more about Baseball in China, see
chapter 17.

Xita Temple
Xita Temple sits on top of West Hill in Yueqing, Zhejiang Province where I spent part of my Spring Festival Holiday.
If I look tired, it's because it's a 700 foot climb to the top.
(2002 February 3)

Bat Cave
Me at the entrance to Bat Cave on Qixia Hill next to Hangzhou's West Lake.
(Fall, 2001)
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Top Foreign Expert
October, 2000 in Shenyang. I am named one of the top 25 Foreign Experts in Liaoning Province. |
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Liaoning Province Top Foreign Experts
Click on the picture to meet the governor of Liaoning, his ministers, and the top 25 Foreign Experts in Liaoning Province. |
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Chinese Sweatshop?
Of course not! Here I am conducting a training class for engineers and administrative staff at the Delphi-Delco plant in Suzhou. The plant and offices are beautiful, well-equipped, and ultra-modern. And the people working their are bright, well-educated, wonderful and happy!
(Winter, 1999)

Harbin
Winter in Harbin at the 2001 Winter Ice Festival.
20 below zero!!! Brrrrrrrrr!!!!
To learn more, go here
(Winter, 2001)

Chuck gets married!?!?!?!
In March, 2000 I was invited to work with a local model, Lei Zi, her to make a TV commercial for a local Wedding Photography Studio. This is a picture from the shoot. Here, Lei Zi and I pose as husband and wife in traditional Chinese wedding attire. Lei Zi is wearing traditional Chinese marriage Qi Pao.
When I sent this picture to my friends and family in America and showed it to my students in Jinzhou, it caused quite a stir. Until they realized it was April 1.
Photo Copyright © Jinzhou Televison, 2000.
Go to the head of the class.
Me in my classroom in spring, 1998.
On the Ropes
Crossing the rope bridge near Bijia Shan. (See Chuck in China-4)
(Spring, 1998)

The "Love River" on campus at Suzhou University.
I will sometimes have my writing classes here because it's a great spot for students to relax and write. (Spring, 1999)
A Great Man?
On the Great Wall at Badaling outside of Beijing.
Mao Ze Dong once said, Ÿou are not a great man until you have visited The Great Wall.
I've been to the Great Wall twice so far. What does that make me?
(1998 November)
Basketball Team?
Five kids playing in the rice fields of Xiaohua Village, Jiangsu Province.
(1999 May)
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