Everybody give a hand to Mark O’Neill, my good friend who helps me maintain this site! He got married last week. Congratulations!
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On the last day of classes, apparently one of my students videotaped our proceedings. For your viewing, then, I present evidence that I really have been doing what I said I’ve been doing. Thanks to my student Monkey Ray (really) for uploading these. As a disclaimer worded as delicately as I can (after all, [...] I was thinking again the other day about coming here, and whether I accomplished what I thought I might, or if I even had figured out what that was to begin with. I realized that sometimes when you look into a dark corner, you don’t always necessarily find out what’s there. Sometimes you just find [...] One good thing about having a birthday far, far away from home is that if it’s just far away enough, your one day of celebration will turn into two, one for each hemisphere! After five grueling classes, I’m finished being a teacher in China. Some nice things kids said to me today: “I will not forget you.” “You will become a doctor, but I think you should become a teacher.” “Your shirt is ugly.” By the end of the school day I was back in the English office scribbling away madly, filling out [...] It is indeed my last week of teaching classes here. While still not officially confirmed, I’ve heard so from enough unofficial teachers and administrators that I’m going with it. The reason for the early ending is that my students are all Junior 3s, and are all preparing for their high school entrance examinations. From what I [...] I just haven’t been able to get myself to write much recently. Even in my book. I guess we’ll call that one a failure, everybody. I do have a month or so left, though, and not much to do with it. This is my last week of teaching. I found that out when the [...] My dad sent me a video interview that Charlie Rose did of Lee Kuan Yew, the Singaporean statesman. Charlie Rose: I met a Chinese delegation recently who’s here, in the last couple of weeks, and spoke to a very important member of the government – not the highest level, but still highly important – and asked [...] |
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