There’s a lot of stuff to talk about: the Chinese New Year, my trip to Fuzhou, my trip to Malaysia, and a few things that I encountered upon returning to Shenzhen that I’d like to elaborate on. This week I’ll do my best to work on each piece and post them as soon as [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] “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 [...] When he was here, Dad asked me if I had made any good dude pals who I could chum around with. No, I told him a little regretfully, not yet. Most of the young male teachers play basketball after class, but I still haven’t gotten to joining them. A plethora of reasons [...] NaNoWriMo is slow trudging. I keep finding that I have more and more ideas for what I want to write, but I feel limited by where I am in the story right now. Actually, I feel constrained by the concept of plot entirely – as if what I want to write isn’t what [...] I went to play badminton at the school courts today. Whenever class finishes, the back yard of Yucai Third Middle becomes a teeming crowd of basketball players (mostly boys), joggers on the track (mostly girls), and badminton players (mostly teachers). On the way to the badminton court I even saw a few people [...] Last night in the school cafeteria I chatted with Gong Laoshi, one of the 9th grade science teachers. He speaks English very well, so we were able to have a relatively complicated conversation about genetic testing (I learned the word for “law” from this) and figured out that we were both going to be [...] Last week I got two small, baby turtles from a street vendor. Their names have alternated from “Emeril and Dolce” to “Elmo and Remington” to “Bebop and Rocksteady” (follow the link if you are not of my generation/are Chinese) and are currently “red turtle” and “green turtle.” They are sleepy things, usually sitting [...] |
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