ESSENCES OF TONGCHENG

About the Book

College students from Tongcheng Teachers College in Anhui Province of China share in foreign teacher’s daily life. Various topics from classrooms, of college apartments, trying city shopping or walking outdoors and invitations to indoor activities are after becoming resident in small remote city of subtropics in Tongcheng.

About the Author

Irish, born in Saskatchewan, Canada, Maureen found abilities after high school to bicycle across Edmonton, Alberta’s High Level Bridge to begin career in post-secondary education and was awarded degree in Social Work in five years in Calgary, Alberta at University of Calgary. After moving to British Columbia, Maureen studied mediation at Justice Institute of British Columbia, completed Certificate in Family Mediation to continue work in criminal justice and public schools. Writing is affinity while daily walking often in nature and lead Maureen to teaching conversational English at Tongcheng Teachers College. With luck and good fortune to depart to China in 2016, Maureen searched and discovered living-well in smaller city. Two years of coming and going to Tongcheng developed with generosity and patience into long-term relationships. Simply said on being Irish, Maureen is always Irish enjoying travel across Western Canada.