Hi All,
This is probably a new question here — if you were telling stories about your time in China to your third-grade niece/cousin/neighbor, what would you tell? Every night when I put my 8-year-old daughter to bed, I spend about 10-15 minutes making up a story for her. One day I decided to make up a story about when she goes away to the Peace Corps in the year 2025. Quickly it became clear that this idea could sustain 10 minute stories for months, and she’s eating it up. I was a health volunteer in Peace Corps Togo (West Africa) in the mid-90s, but she decided that she wanted to be a PCV in China — near the pandas, of course. I’m tickled to find this website and see that the past week or two of stories I’ve completely made up haven’t been too far off-base. I have her living in the teacher apartments at a teacher’s college in a town in a poorer western province, training future English teachers who’ve studied English for a long time but don’t really know how to speak it. She’s got two best friends — Diana, a science teacher from Britain who’s been there for a year, and Ming-Tai, a brand new Chinese math teacher their age.
As these stories go, I don’t care about getting details exactly right — they’re make-believe stories for an 8-year-old, and she knows I’m no expert on China. But I’d like to get the flavor right and continue to have fun with them. Anyone here want to help me out here with story ideas?
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Hi there! I think your storytelling ideas are great! If you want some inspiration you might check the Peace Corps Journals (links to blogs by current and return volunteers) and filter down to China. You can find a link to that site in the sidebar on this website. cheers!