Gateway Language Village

Gateway Language Village is billed as a Total Emmersion Experience. Once you step into the door only English can be spoken. An environment is created as close to that found in a Country that uses only English to communicate. Those who cannot afford to go aboard to learn English can come here.

The founder of the school,Ping, is an extraodinary person,and so are many others on the staff and student body. I find this a very fascinationg place to be.

Ping told me that his mother had to give away three of her 6 children to keep the family going. However, his older sister was able to find the three and bring them back home. One is now working at GLV(Gateway Language Village)

Somehow Ping was able to go to Prudue University and remained in the U.S. for 5 years before returning and starting this school in Zhuhai,China. Sandra Lee left Child and Family service on Kauai in 2001 and came to work at GLV in Zhuhai.
I can tell she has found her home. She loves GLV and has become an essential member of its staff. The school is her family. She has many children here who take good care of her. And by talking with the students realize that she has been a great influence on them.

I feel very priviledged and extremely fortunate to be here for three weeks.

I arrived here Thursday night. Sandra has put me into a lovely apartment of my own on the 9th floor. The school is in a hotel. They rent space from the hotel.This is a new area where lots of development is still happening. Actually it is a hotel/apartment/amusement park complex. I knew that I was in the right place when I saw a huge ferris wheel and a huge Egyptian Shynx. It took the taxi about an hour to get from Hangzhou to Xiaoshan where GLV is actually located.

On Saturday and Sunday I went with a team who did "Open Classrooms" at public libraries in two different cities. Monday I started holding night sessions from 6:30-8:30pm each night on subjects: Traveling Around the World,Hawaii, Dances of Hawaii, and tonight I will be doing one on The Healing Art of Qi Gong by Master Hong Liu.

Next blog I will tell you about the students I have met.

Aloha & A hui hoa,,,,Joanne