Whoa, so i hadn’t even realized when leaving for the teacher’s party (which ended up being in Longgang District, an almost two hour drive across Shenzhen) that it was December 31st! So I may have missed my own New Year’s (though details of how that went down soon to come), but even though I [...]
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To continue the story of the last post would mean that I have to skip ahead of telling the story of my actual Christmas spent in Hong Kong in the pleasant company of family there. For making you feel at home in the wintertime of a country that ostensibly doesn’t celebrate Christmas, there’s nothing [...] At almost the eleventh hour the Shenzhen Education Bureau – that is, that peculiar section of the Shenzhen municipal government that is “responsible” for us in the way an insurance agent is “responsible” for your medical bills – has decided to throw us a Christmas party after all. Magnanimous! Us “foreign expert” Americans+Assorted British Commonwealthers [...] I’m sitting in a Starbucks – the one at the Coastal City megamall complex a few blocks north of my school. I took the bus to get here thinking that I needed to restock on frozen dumplings and could also use another space heater since it’s getting a little chilly again. But I guess I [...] Here are some examples of emails I occasionally get from students (names changed): ———- Dear.Andrew Hello.i’m your student. My English name is T, my Chinese name is Zhou Juntian. My classmate always call me ‘JT’, so u can address me as JT too. ,Hmm.. maybe it was strange, but it was your freedom, so u can choose how to call [...] I have my replacement power adapter now! (And the coats and parcel things – thank you very much Mom!) This means I don’t have to go back to the office every time I want to use the computer now, and hopefully I can start posting here more regularly again. The revival will have to wait a [...] “For our lesson today we will finish talking about computer games,” I announce to Class 6. The boys, previously engaged in disorganized noisy ruckus, now erupt in a unified and appreciative noisy ruckus. The girls sigh and put their head on their hands, although one looks excited. I throw up a few slides of in-game screenshots. The [...] I was cooking/destroying some dumplings at my makeshift window kitchenette and watching the kids down in the courtyard play basketball. I always have to keep the window open while I cook/destroy things, which is a lesson I learned after the smoke detector went off the first time. Since it was open I could [...] |
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