Archive for October, 2009
Today is one of those days
that I am definitely developing a intricate plan for my escape - out of China! The kids are handing in really shitty homework with no effort the week before their first term exams - so why should I be putting any effort into something that I never intend to make a career out of ? I am busting my butt marking and preparing 4 Level Exams by [...]
Dear Obama:
Dear Obama: I am worried...I am worried for you...and not for the first time, I am worried for your party and your country. Worry for your country (which so many other countries uphold as the model of democracy and 'where dreams come true') means worry for my country, so close and therefore so often mistaken and lumped in with its southern [...]
marching for education
Well, it seems one of the perks of living in a communist country is that you never know when the government is going to call upon you to celebrate it - thereby giving me a day off! Not only do we have Sports Day this Friday...ah how I loved the Sports Days of my elementary school years...competition with all the fun and none of the [...]
Day 38: Friday September 25, 2009…H1N1 threat-down
Home sick with the flu today...the school is all but closed down with an H1N1 threat (surgical masks, ear temperature readers, and unidentified liquids being sprayed in the classrooms were regular sights in the last 3 or 4 days) which means I did not have to get anyone to cover my classes...I don't have that flu ....but whatever I have is nasty [...]
Post #1, 5 Days in China, 23rd August 2009
Ladies!! and gents...a little update: First off Facebook is officially blocked in China so you won't be seeing me on there anytime soon...apparently there is software you can download to bypass the censors that helps you piggyback IP signals from different countries ....uh....but right now, not a big priority for me with everything else going [...]
End of September 2009: 33 days in China To summarize in a word: leftovers…of belongings, of fears, of patience, of food, of propriety.
Roland’s arrival was as anticipated it was surreal – I felt that I had already been in China for years, not 2 and a half weeks! Was I going to make him relive my first 2 weeks here by locking him out of the apartment and making him argue with the school for help? My fellow teachers prompted me to do so…but no I was not so cruel. It turns [...]