Now that the final whistle has been blown, my keys and cafeteria card have been handed in, and I am officially no longer on the staff at RDFZ, I can, perhaps, reassess things a little more. If you have been reading my deliberations over the past few months, you will know that I was undecided …
Category: Teaching
Endings – some thoughts
I’ve been thinking a lot about endings recently. I think because things here are ending. Whether it’s David Hodges and Gil Grissom in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode, where Grissom leaves the crime lab (‘It’s the right time for me to go’); or the ending of series six of Community where the ‘Save Greendale …
An empty office
There's a scene in the television series ER, when Dr Mark Greene, stalwart of the emergency department for eight years, dies, and one of the final scenes we see of him is him walking around an empty department, with Somewhere Over the Rainbow playing in the background. I have more to say about endings, which …
The award for best international film goes to….
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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The future…
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 …
History repeating itself
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
'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 …
