Tag: China
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What do you do in Beijing, Steve?
Well it’s back at ‘er this week. Oddly, I’m glad to be back in the classroom with a host of new students, even though I had momentarily forgotten how to teach. The last week has been pretty busy both preparing for classes and helping the new teachers get on their feet and come to some…
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A Return to Beijing
So now I’m physically back in Beijing another year older and hopefully a little bit more wise. It has been a while since I last wrote since I took the summer off to travel. I managed to cross overland from Beijing to Almaty, Kazakhstan before flying to Paris for a week and then Canada for…
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Beijing Walking (with Illustrations)
If I had to choose one word to describe Beijing and the few other cities in China that I’ve been to, it would be “Go!” Not as in “go and experience” but more like “GO! MOVE! GET OUT OF THE WAY!” Now, I’m not going to lump all of China into this category because, really, my experience is…
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End of term and an update on my progress in the Chinese language
School School is all but over as exams are done and now it’s just finalizing te grades. Since I work at one of the better universities in the country (a fact of which I am honoured), the grading is necessarily super tough. A lot of these kids put in a lot of work but the…
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Sunbrellas and Summer Storms
I had a new alarm clock for a couple of weeks. YI are YI! Yi are YI! …. YI! ARE! SAN! SUH! YI! ARE! SAN! SUH! Which is Chinese for ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR! It’s much, much louder in person. Marching orders, that is. Of course, no one bothered to tell me and so one…