There is a new blog in town. China Golf and has courses from around China featured on its pages. Soon, about 300 courses from around China will be featured on the site with prices, play dates and more.
A couple of days ago my girlfriend HuaDi went to He Yuan city, China on a business trip, where she witnessed the first hand beauty of this marvelous fountain known as the biggest one in Aisa. The height of this gorgeous fountain is 169 meters, or 554 feet tall. The giant tall fountain is located in Xinfengjiang forest park in He Yuan.
I met this morning with two Chinese Sea Turtles: both recent graduates of the University of Michigan. They are part of the organizing team for a new NGO with a powerful mission. They are tasked with providing teachers and training for 100 children orphaned by the Sichuan earthquake and now living in Beijing, aiding schools in the quake zone that have teacher needs, and the giving of time and talent to a hospital for young amputees in Chengdu.
I too have been part of the planning committee and have volunteered my Internet and educational skills to help recruit short-term and long-term help for the group.
我也一直是组织委员会的一分子,利用我的互联网和教育技能,义务为团队招募短期和长期队员提供帮助.
Teachers in every discipline and at every level of education are needed for in-province and Internet distance learning. English teachers will not need a to speak Chinese, but other disciplines will require fluency in the subject matter.
Volunteers who feel they need preparation before heading into Sichuan and other affected areas will be trained in teaching methods, first aid, trauma counseling and critical incident stress de-briefing.
You may leave your name, email, and teaching area of interest and in the comments section of this post if you’d like to be contacted. Your information will not be published on this blog. You will be emailed and asked for a resume and your expected availability so we can best match you to schools/students. Volunteers may come for training and a visit of the area before accepting an assignment.
A tribute to the victims Called Love and Hope and written by popular singer JJ. You don’t need to know the language to understand this video rife with both heart-wrenching and triumphant images familiar to those of us living here.
1.4 Million people in 4,000 villages were financially ruined by the earthquake ongoing aftershocks. There is much to be done for several years to come.
It has been a year since we began this blog!!! We have traveled, written, photographed and even started a business to help fund this adventure–more on that one day soon. It has been amazing and we love China even more than we did when we started.
We have had a rough few weeks for a number of reasons. The toughest thing to recover from was a spam hack of the site. I think we are OK again, but we lost a lot of pages to a security flaw in Wordpress. We are still working to get everything back.
You have helped immensely and we are asking you to give us a few minutes one more time!
At the bottom of tis post please comment and tell us why YOU love China. And help us reach the goal of becoming one of the longest comment threads on the net.
About us for those who are new:
For a year has been a place where we have posted positive stories, pictures, travel adventures and announcements about ways to help where help is needed.
All ad proceeds from the site are immediately donated to the Library Project which now has an earthquake rebuild fund.
The Dreamblogue is one long-term solution to this tragedy and any others that may come our way. It is also a way to support positive projects in China like the Library Project’s commitment to orphanages and rural communities.
We don’t ask for donations ever. We do ask that you send us original photos that we can post, keep us informed about great stories and do five simple things:
We want The China Dreamblogue to be the #1 favorited blog on the planet. How great would that be?? It will take about 10,000 favorites to make that happen.
2.Comment on our “Why I Love China” post. We want to set a world record for longest comment thread in cyber-space.
3. Link to us on your own blogs. We will have badges later on, but for now a text link will do it.
4. Invite your friends here to ILC! so we can have a place to announce when other groups, like now, need your support. And feel free to post any needs and connections that fit with this goal!
5. Add this post to your favorite Social network: Facebook, Digg, Stumble….
We are already #1 in many key words on Google and Baidu for China Travel, China Pics and such. As we get bigger and stronger we will expand the site, so people can find only engaging and positive information about the country we all love.
Help us get to #1 and we’ll try to help people for years to come in China….