On my last day in Shenzhen, I woke up early and sorted through my things. I cleared my desk of the things I had made ready for the single day and ran a final check through my suitcases. Even though I was leaving them here for a few days, I wanted all to [...]
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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, [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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