Shengli Primary School

The principals or their representatives came from all the schools to pick us up and take us to their school. Mr. McClintock went with a group of people to Taizhou Baiyun Primary School. This was about a 3 1/2 hours away.

Anna Marie Burrell and I went with the principal, Mr. Zhang, and a translator from his school to our partner school, Shengli Primary School.

We were warmly welcomed by the students, faculty and staff. We walked through the hallway being greeted by students smiling and waving and saying, "Hello!" We went to Mr. Zhang's office and he gave us a schedule he asked us to look over and see if there were any changes we would like to make. We were very happy doing whatever he felt comfortable allowing us to do. He had lots of experiences planned for us to participate in observing and teaching in classrooms. It sounded great to us. Anna Marie Burrell is an architect and a partner with Schmidt and Associates. It is an architecture firm based in Indianapolis. Their firm designed and oversaw the Warsaw Community High School's Performing Arts Center. She had pictures on her IPad of the building. She was interested in seeing what schools in China looked like and what they needed in their schools because her firm specialized in designing schools. We had a wonderful day. We ate in their school cafeteria and were taken out to dinner by a group of 5 English teachers to a fancy restaurant. We enjoyed it very much!