Ready to go!

So this is going to be my last entry made in Shiyan. I finally corrected my last student's paper, men that was a whole lot of work! Now I can understand why some teachers take ages before they hand back the test and I can understand another thing. Grades are not fair and they never will be, not even if the teachers tries to be fair. It's really a hard job, I mean you suddenly have the power to make a little life feel miserable by failing him or her with just one stroke of your pen.

01 - Friends

I feel really sorry for these guys, but even I had to fail some of my students. There's just no other way to have a normal scale.

02 - Friends

So tomorrow, at around 4.00 a.m. I will leave by train with Janice to Nanning and hopefully meet up with Angel and Derek there. This is going to be an adventure! We got standing tickets from here to Xian Fan and then a hard sleeper to a city close to Nanning. All in all I guess we'll travel about 14 hours by train.

I should start packing. I'll take everything I got with me, in case I can't get a visa back to China in Cambodia. Until now I have no idea how to get all my stuff into this one backpack, I simply have way to much things. The guitar is probably going to kill me, but hey I said I would die for music, so now I shouldn't complain when it's actually getting quite close to it.

03 - Friends

Tomorrow is my last complaining conversation about all the little things here that just go wrong and then it's someone elses problem, which feels kind of like a big relieve. I do understand why business with China is often soooo complicated. And I always thought I'm patient, but they really got me on my edge of patience. I hate it if people are not logical and if you can't rely on what they say. I keep on missing the sence in these conversations. It feels like talking to walls. Usually I say something, they seem to understand but really I guess they didn't and then they'll do things or they don't do anything at all, which was not the way it was supposed to be.

04 - Friends

But be sure, nobody will ever tell you that he or she did not understand what you were saying, I guess they rather die then to admit that there was a little something that they did not get. The problem is, that little something will grow and grow until it's so huge and obvious that they can't make a secret out of it anymore. But then it's usually already way to late to fix anything. Men this is so exhausting! Let's see if I will ever get a visa that will be okay, let's see if they will manage to give students who don't speak any English at all a Chinese teacher, let's see if I will ever come back.

05 - Friends

Addon:

Marco and Sonic did not leave until we actually had been on the train, but here is the weird part about it: This train left at 5 o'clock in the morning!!! We stayed up pretty much the whole night. Men was I tired. I still can't understand why they didn't let us alone. And sometimes it feels like they are making things worse by trying to help. Like for example they are absolutely not patient. If I started doing something they always are about to jump up and help, even if it's stuff they just can't do. It feels strange, I really like to pack my underwear by myself in the backpack and also I like to carry my bagpack by myself. I mean it's a bagpack, it's supposed to stay a long time on my back and if I would need somebody to carry it arround the whole time then I shouldn't be making a trip around the globe.

Well anyway we went on this first trainride, got standing tickets and ended up sharing a seat with some nice chinese students who are all heading home right now. One(Brandon) even got the trophe of having my emailaddress.