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Lazy Sunday
... substituting one of my classes, for no publicized reason. I have to say, honestly, the group of kids she has (my Class 2) is a great group, so in some ways, I'm quite proud of them, but it is incredibly frustrating because now, they will not have time to review for the exam, since Jill is being scripted to teach completely new lessons that have nothing to do with my curriculum. I am probably going to be expected to tailor the exam for them, or ...
Giving Thanks- Chinese Style
... and close in your heart. Often those two things are one in the same. I celebrated by waking up at an obscene hour to call my parents back at Thanksgiving dinner in their time zone. I spent hours emailing friends from home. And I spent several joyous hours with new friends who are, largely, the reason that I am not just surviving China, but am truly having the ...
"Meiguoren lai le"
... Ha, at least not yet. Wo yao tang...
Fei: Fei is my Chinese tutor that I meet with once a week. She is great, fluent in English (unlike many of the English teachers at Cambridge, ha) and super funny. She yells at us all, tells us about how gross Chinese restaurants are and how we should never eat there because they use rat meat and how Chinese tones are crucial in the language if we don’t want to look like idiots. Evidently, I had been saying ...
Not a happy camper
... However, I am gaining it in my adult and elementary classes. On Sundays, I've been taking some optional classes through the company, meaning I get legal bonus pay to teach classes of people who are more genuinely interested in learning English, or who have a vested interest in doing so. I hope these will save my sanity, because the middle school work is becoming increasingly stressful.
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Calming down
... the work is complete. I don't think we played too many games at all, but she did, so I told her we could compromise.
What this led to, though, was not a quiet environment conducive to English learning. I noticed that Christine started talking over me; she insisted that she was only translating and disciplining them, but the students would respond, thus a Chinese dialogue developed, and I couldn't continue teaching.
Thanksgiving was the ...
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