Well I got back onto a blog. The last blog website the gov denied access too. This website is fine though and many teachers here have been posting on the site for a while so it shouldn't be denied. Well since my last entry I have gone and traveled to Shanghai with a friend and fellow teacher Steve. We saw the sights and sounds of a huge city in the 4 days I was there. Then lots of great teachings and lots of planing too. I decided to move the week before last. The campus life was getting a little too [View Full Entry]

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Well the past week went well. I had 4 classes write their chapter tests and I think they will do alright, maybe not fantastic but good enough. I was quite busy at the end of the week with marking and absent students coming in to write their tests. The weekends can be quite busy with marking and I though that this weekend would be no exception. Until that is, a late scheduled 4pm meeting on yesterday. There have been more and more students absent through the past week. Many of the students have been contracting a cold and even some of [View Full Entry]

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Well yeah things are starting to kinda settle down a bit. I'm trying to prepare week by week spending sundays working on the lesson plans for the week. A good routine like that will stop me from working on Friday nights and Saturdays. This past Friday was similar to the Friday before. We all went out to a couple of night clubs including Vox, a often attended club downtown with a great dj. It's fun because all teachers who are interested, both young and old come out dancing and we all unwind. I went to a local mall again yesterday [View Full Entry]

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I made it through the first week. I can't say it wasn't stressful, but a tolerable amount of stress. All my kids are fairly well behaved. I made sure to be very firm with those students who were causing distractions. They typically become very apologetic when I call them on something. Often I find students tired because they wake up so early every morning and are at school until around 6 pm they then go to their dorms, do homework and go to bed. But despite this grueling schedule and some tired eyes they are very friendly, saying hello to me [View Full Entry]

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This first entry was written on Saturday and posted today, The trip was long, 11 hour flight to Shanghai was mind numbing and sleep was hard. We were traveling with the sun over the pacific so it was never rising or setting. I was quite surprised, while reading the national paper China Daily along with watching the video selections on the airplane tv, of just how interested the Chinese are with the outside world. The news media I was exposed to on the flight was balanced and informative towards both global issues and national social concerns. When landing, Shanghai was overcast [View Full Entry]

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Well things are going alright. I have been really going hard with prep and stuff. Today though I got some great news, I no longer have to teach accounting! This is fantastic because I have been swamped with work for four separate courses and 6 classes. Now I only have 3 courses and 6 classes so that just means less lesson plans. Yesterday I went shopping for groceries and supplies. I went to the carefour a french grocery store in downtown Wuhan. The trip downtown was long and chaotic. Traffic was extreme because it was the Chinese valentines day and everyone [View Full Entry]

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