Zhujiajiao
August 19th 2006 Last night the British Council in Shanghai held a reception dinner for all the newly arrived ELAs. We had been (falsely) led to believe it would be a fairly formal affair and so we were (mostly) booted and suited and suffering in the heat because of it. (Needlessly it turns out). We were again subjected to several speeches. The Confucius quote "Truly happiness is friends coming from afar" seems a
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