Dong Fang Hotel (Harbin Dongfeng)
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Travel Blogs from Harbin
Lazy Sunday
... conservative and liberal views, the best way (in my experience) to shake hands, traveling to Italy, and marriage. It was a great hour and a half session, so it woke me up without draining me.
I have been busy preparing my lessons for tomorrow, but I also took today to relax. Let's just say that it is not the best time of the month to stress out too much on my days off, especially today. I needed the break, for sure.
I am ...
Giving Thanks- Chinese Style
... a lifetime. I was told that I would appreciate what I had when I am without it, and that I absolutely true when it concerns my family and friends from home. Even so, you can learn so much more when newfound friends don’t merely fill the void of holiday traditions, but they create memorable traditions and experiences of their own that, while different, are just as ...
"Meiguoren lai le"
... English class at a time and one of her.) She is amazing…she is great with the kids. They listen to her without her hitting, kicking, screaming, or humiliating them (which believe me, is rare in China.)
Tony: Tony is one of my 2.1 students. He is great at English and has taken it upon himself to be the class clown. All the other students say hi or hug me in the hallway…Tony fires shots at me from his machine gun and I pretend I am hit. He ...
Not a happy camper
This morning, I had a more-fun-than-usual college class, but still, I think that 8:20 AM on a Monday morning is an incredibly ineffective time to try to teach a room of college-age Chinese girls English. I ended up playing Charades with them, which made class go by much, much faster.
When I trudged in the bitter cold to the back of the campus, to where the middle school is, ...
Calming down
... learn to watch for students' reactions; she is obsessed with behavior, but bad behavior tends to result from a lack of understanding. Students who understand are often eager to show their knowledge off, so I know that a disruptive class often means something is confusing. However, her obsession comes from pressure from the administration to have perfect class behavior, which with classes of 40 middle school students is utter nonsense. Even the Chinese teachers ...