My journey as an English teacher in Asia & the Middle Kingdom
I've been using this slide in my classes all this week. It is advertising our film for the film festival. I have been encouraging all my students to come and watch it. I think it is a decent enough film, all things consider, though it is very different to other entries, which mostly seem to …
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This week I have a holiday, due to my students having their mid-term exams. So my parents are visiting and I'm giving them a tour of Beijing and some of its many tourist sights. At the same time, I have to decide about next year. One of the universities I interviewed at recently, gave me …
It is often remarked that history repeats itself. Whether this is actually true or not, it seems to be happening here. I’ve known for a while now that another colleague was planning to leave early. She has been offered a job in her old place-of-work. I found out by chance; she had told me she …
'The doctor dances'. That's the title of a Doctor Who story, but it fits here too. Our film, 'A day in the life of a foreign teacher', is pretty much ready to go. It just needs an ending. That's where the title of this post comes in. There is a video on YouTube about a …
It was recently April Fools' Day. On that day, I only had two classes (it was a make-up day; because we had the following Monday and Tuesday off as a holiday, so we worked the Saturday before). I started by giving them a test. This was a pointless test with random questions like 'Write your …
It doesn't seem like it has only been about six or so weeks since term started, but it has. Yet, probably more has happened in the spate of these few weeks than all of last semester. First, there was the dropping of a grade, then the announcement about next year, and now, the wind shifts …
Actually, I'm not so busy with teaching at the moment, but I've been sending off a few job applications. I had a job interview last Thursday, in person. Previous interviews have been via Skype or over the phone, due to the fact the positions were not in Beijing. This one was. It was at a …
