Huirong Mansion
Travel Blogs from Harbin
Lazy Sunday
... because in addition to having no assistant, my class schedule has become incredibly stupid. From what I've been told, there is a "public class" at my school, which means that several headmasters or members of administration from other schools will come and sit in on a class. The waijiao chosen was Jill, who, as a blonde-haired, bluish-green-eyed young woman with a teaching certification who speaks no Chinese, would be the best candidate. However, she ...
Giving Thanks- Chinese Style
Spending the holidays away from families and friends is a challenge. It is something that I knew from the beginning would be one of the most challenging aspects of this adventure. I'm a holiday elf at home; I adore decorating, and have numerous traditions that I adhere to religiously. This is the first holiday season that I’ve spent away from all that. And as ...
"Meiguoren lai le"
... leaving for school and we heard this creepy humming. We walk down the stairwell (which, as you can see by the pictures, is a pretty creepy place itself) and she is sitting there, squatting over a newspaper, humming and laughing to herself and looking at us. She stares at us the rest of the way down. It was something out of Silence of the Lambs, seriously.
Huck: Huck is a cutie patootie four year old that I teach on Wednesday nights. He was first part ...
Not a happy camper
... to set things right with Christine, figure out what happened on Friday, and prepare for a happier, more productive class. That is not, however, what happened. Christine's coat was missing from the rack and from her chair; when I asked Simon, another waijiao assistant, about her, his eyes grew wide.
He informed me that Christine was fired over the incident on Friday. The kid ...
Calming down
... on her to make our class a success. She is responsible for translating and for keeping discipline. Recently, she must have gotten bad feedback about our classes, because she told me to stop giving the students rewards (I often hand out stickers) and to stop talking one-on-one with them. In a class of forty kids, I could just ask them to recite. She wants me to stand behind the desk and lecture at them; although this works for Chinese teachers, I cannot stand ...
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