Monthly Archives: May 2017

We found him!!! And we reckon this is his cousin who lives just down the road a bit…

This afternoon we attended another event at the hotel and spoke with various Government officials and staff. The Premier spoke again but we weren’t late this time – phew! By around 5.30 we headed off on another of our adventures … Continue reading →

This morning started with an event where SA Premier Jay Weatherill spoke about the sister city relationship between Adelaide and Jinan. Would have been great if we could find the Confusious Hall on time. The Hotel is so large that … Continue reading →

This afternoon we visited the Primary School Attached To Jinan Normal School. They had invited Raising Literacy Australia to discuss our programs and books. We had a tour of the school which has 2200 students and all of them were … Continue reading →

A visit to Jinan Bi-lingual Experimental School this morning and the students performed an incredible display of costumes dancing, drumming, marching and martial arts. And also a display of their technology projects including robots, electronics and 3D printing. This school … Continue reading →

During this afternoon we had our first bit of ‘free time’ so our interpreter from the Jinan Library Mr Charles took us to Daming Lake and the Ni Shan Academy. I took a lot of pictures on my proper camera … Continue reading →

The Jinan Children’s Library has some great rooms and spaces for children to learn. It was fantastic to see some Kindy aged kids using the spaces. We observed a class using one room for a clay workshop and learning how … Continue reading →

View from our hotel – Shandong Hotel… A few pics of the streets and buildings A restaurant!… Yep, I did another presentation today!… but first a look around the 6 floors of the beautiful Jinan Children’s Library.

We arrived at Shenzhen Louhu station to a warm welcome from the staff of Hyledar International Kindy. The staff were amazing! We had a tour of the Kindy and observed an English – the kids are beautiful! Next I gave … Continue reading →

Up at 5am today and checked out of our hotel. Into a taxi and off to the train station where we somehow managed to navigate our way through complete Chinese maze and bought tickets for our train to Shenzhen. As … Continue reading →