There have been two meetings for teachers at Yucai Third Middle this weekend. The first, yesterday’s, was for new teachers and I was included along with six others (most of them graduates from Shenzhen University). It was nice to be included, but I didn’t really understand anything that was being said, so I [...]
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The shop clerks at Walmart are starting to catch on to me. The guy who’s been trying to sell me an iron for the past week was among the six or seven people who mobbed me in the kitchenware section, and the mattress and bedding fuwuyuan totally called me out on having been there [...] My love affair with taxi cabs has ended, because I think I left my wallet in one last night. Coming back from Ikea, Kami, Hunter and I jammed into a taxi cab with all our Ikea stuff (mostly Hunter’s). While juggling everything in the backseat and getting out my wallet to pay, I must have [...] Bear with the ugly thing up top; I’m still trying to tweak it in Wordpress. Don’t have much time now though – must meet the others at Shijie Zhichuang for our lunch at Ikea. What’s an Ikea doing in Shenzhen? What’s an Ikea not doing in Shenzhen, is the question. The [...] After my Walmart escapade of the day, and even after the school workers who showed up unannounced at my door to install security bars on my windows (in the process worrying me immensely as I watched their crazy-dangerous methods of doing so on the 4th floor), a more-or-less impromptu CTLC group reunion was arranged for [...] At a sushi lunch today with Kami at the nearby Garden City megamall, I conversed with her of the difference in educational learning between knowledge acquisition and analytic work; of Kami’s thesis work on collapsing specialized knowledge towards an interdisciplinary base, and of our preferences between Murakami, Mishra, and Borges. Then I shopped around [...] The biggest changes are usually too eventful to leave much time for writing about them. The last two days have been spent wandering around the Shekou area in Nanshan District to get a feel for things, mapping out my surroundings, and unpacking and settling in. Pictures of the room to come later – it’s a nicely [...] I’m living in a dorm again and finally have my own place – pictures to follow shortly. The Yucai Third Middle school is gated shut, and I live within its fences in a dormitory building specifically designated for single teachers and staffers. The day was pretty exhausting so I don’t think I can summarize it [...] In Beijing I began to listen to my iPod while walking through the Peking University campus, since the walking distances were so damn long. I always found the contrast between my Western music and the almost provincial Beida setting (it may be the best university in China, but my 27th American-ranked USC still had [...] Today’s visit to the Shenzhen hospital for our health screenings was like a visit to a medical candy shop! Or an assembly line – difficult to really separate the two. We were essentially let loose on the third floor of the place and shuttled from room to room, where Chinese physicians poked at [...] |
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