I'm already starting to miss my students (I'm still teaching them ( Read more... )

well, on the plus side(s ( Read more... )

This stuff is great.

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What I really like about this one is the honest moment when the advisor responds "sucess for a politician is getting re-elected". That's the meter that rules his world, he didn't even need to think about it. There are people like him everywhere. Not that there's anything wrong with him ( Read more... )

The cure for anything is salt water:
Sweat, Tears, or the Sea.

Don't know anything about the author (Isak Dinesen = Karen Blixen) but I like this phrase.

Two days ago I purchased a bottle of water from the 'corner store' (little shops run from the bottom level of apartment blocks) near my apartment. As I was leaving I noticed some neatly bills folded on the pavement just outside, two 50s and 1 -101 Yuan ( Read more... )

So I started teaching middle school last week; and this week, to see who will get to remain in my class, I have to test those young and fragile students I have just formed the faintest bonds with ( Read more... )

When I was young one of my favourite TV shows was Monkey Magic, a japanese TV show - about the Chinese story/myth Journey to the West - with terrible overdubbed vocals. One of my students mother's recommended the story to me just then. Ehh, I have not the time to read it, but I decided to look up Monkey Magic on youtube ( Read more... )

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boom, boom ( Read more... )

The mother of one of my students from the 'winter camp' is keeping in touch with me. Today I recieved an email from her wishing me happy new year -- one of those e-cards - there is a picture which draws itself while the Chinese classical instrument - the erhu - plays. It is like a violin. Wow, the music in this e-card is great - to me not cheesy at ( Read more... )