Back in Beijing (3rd time within 12 months). Snow in the city + a few of the coldest days on record; just our luck coming from cold Canada. We were with a team from Seneca presenting on work we have started in China with a partner organization on developing curriculum and training teachers on courses from our practical nursing program (the country is waking up to the hugely increasing need for health care workers for the fast growing aging population)....
Lori and Sharon, two of the Practical Nursing program coordinators at Seneca, presented with translator Nick, our Director Asia Pacific. After a few presentations Lori and Sharon started their 2nd training session this year, and Nick and I visited a few of our Beijing partner institutions.
A former Minister of Education welcomed us at one of the presentations and then hosted us for a wonderful lunch.
Always nice to be warmly welcomed. And one of those interesting translation examples...
One of our partners took us to an amazing "Peking Duck" restaurant where the menu was bigger than I have ever seen.
Stylish restaurant where the ducks are grilled on wood-fires.....
Also in Beijing now the rental bikes on the streets. One more meeting in which we joined a trade mission of the City of Markham, and then off to Vietnam....
Packed up and ready to go + unpack in another hotel; the life out of the suitcase for a couple of weeks on the road: from Beijing to Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City to Singapore to Shanghai and to Manila + then back to Toronto via Tokyo. Just another day in the office...
Great transformation!!!
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