Yangzhou Dong Guan Primary School and Geyuan Garden

This morning we toured Yangzhou Dong Guan Primary School. This was a first though sixth grade school, which is a common grade structure in China. Enrollment here was 3,100.  President Jiang Zeming attended this school while growing up.   Please see link below....
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Zemin

We were able to observe a 6th grade English class. It was a great lesson and the teacher did an excellent job delivering this lesson to the 56 students in the class. The students asked us so many questions.  We also showed the video created by SOAR student Nick Lofy of Northland Adventure Quest 2014. If you could have seen these students eyes as they watched this video, it was priceless. We take our blue sky and fresh water as a given!

After lunch we were able to tour the Geyuan Garden. The Geyuan Garden was known as "the garden of the long-lived Ganoderma" during the Ming Dynasty. In 1818 (the 22nd year of the reign of the Jiaqing Emperor), salt distribution commissioner Huang Zhiyun, bought the land and rebuilt the garden as a private retreat.  Please see link below.... 
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge_Garden

Late afternoon we left Yangzhou and headed to Shanghai on a high speed train for our last stop before heading home. Shanghai has a population of over 24 million.  Please see link.... 
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai   The train ride was awesome!

On the way to Shanghai we crossed the Yangtze River (English pronunciation: /ˈjæŋtsi/ or /ˈjɑːŋtsi/), known in China as the  Yangzi, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world. behind the Amazon and the Nile.