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Led by CSD - Cooperating School
Districts, St. Louis Teachers Experience the Realities of China in 2001 |
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Ms. Sheila Ounska
St. Louis Teachers Experience the
Realities of China in 2001
Twenty St Louis teachers traveled to China to spend three weeks exploring thousands of
years of culture while e-mailing home their impressions of daily life in the world's most
populous country.
Every day after the teachers visited the sites that exemplify Chinese culture like the
Great Wall outside Beijing and the Emperor's Amy in Xian, they returned to direct dial
home and e-mail friends with their impressions. Traveling in China in 2001 is a lesson in
contrasts.
With generous funding from the Freeman Foundation, the Cooperating School Districts is
able to offer area teachers an 18-month-long program in Chinese history and culture that
culminates in a three-week trip to China. This year's trip included a week's residence on
the campus of Peking University, then visits to Taiyuan, Xian, Guilin, Nanjing, Suzhou,
Hangzhou, and Shanghai.
Highlights for the teachers included climbing the Great Wall, spending the Fourth of July
in Yangshuo at the end of a spectacular Li River cruise, and meeting the deputy mayor of
Nanjing, the Sister City of St. Louis.
In addition, the teachers visited schools for conversations with students and faculty,
shopped in night markets and shopping malls, and ate mounds of dumplings and watermelon.
Everywhere they were greeted with friendliness and courtesy.
Beginning in October the CSD will be recruiting a new group of teachers to participate in
the 2002 program. For more information you can reach Sheila Ounska, the director of the
program, at 314-692-9708. |
 
 
 
 
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