On Tuesday night, a student who I knew from Senior 1 last year contacted me and asked if I was interested in helping her and her friends with their film (which I thought was for the RDFZ Film Festival but later I found out it was for an art project they were working on). I …
Category: RDFZ
From 2017 to beyond
‘Tis the season, or so the saying goes. And so, another year ends. I was reading how I summed up 2016 here, and I described it as ‘interesting’. 2017 has been, if anything, ‘more interesting’ and certainly more depressing. Brexit seems to be spiralling aimlessly out of control, with the Brexiteers seemingly hell-bent on leaving …
Better than maths?
I try not to watch the news too much whilst I’m here. I mean, I enjoy reading the news usually, but also it gets a bit depressing. The main story dominating things back home is, perhaps unsurprisingly, Brexit. I’ve discussed this in previous posts so I’m not going to go over it again but it …
Cutting things close!
I had written a different version of this, but then the result changed and so I scrapped it! I had a few ‘waifs and strays’ after the enrolment upheaval here. Some students were not on my printed register, but still turned up to class. I asked my manager if they could be added to my …
Breaking glass ceilings
I read a Guardian article recently which explained why Hillary Clinton lost the election. It described a number of reasons, including the fact white women en masse did not vote for her. She did not, in other words, secure the female vote. One reason for this was that women tended to vote for Donald Trump, …
Week 2.1
This week has been a bit odd. On Tuesday, my classes were way down on numbers – I had four students in the first class, then ten, then six. Yesterday, I had full classes. We – me and the other teacher I share the teaching with on a Tuesday and Friday – decided to combine …
The small things
I made it back to Beijing on Sunday, 20 August, in one piece. There was no calamity, no catastrophe. It went well coming back. I arrived at about 05:30, and went through customs very quickly. I collected my luggage, got on the first airport express train and made it to the campus for my new …
