Tag: living abroad
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If not China, then where?
I said it a few months ago that if the Coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown doesn’t resolve itself by June then that’s when things would become worrying. And that is slowly becoming the reality. I’ve made posts on Facebook indicating that things are starting to look a bit more desperate here in Beijing, despite the…
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What’s it like to live in China?
I write this post in an effort to give some idea of what it’s like to live in China, Beijing in particular, seeing as though I’ve only ever lived in the nation’s capital and only travelled through other parts of the country. I should make it clear that someone living in a Tier 1 city…
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Chinese changes
It’s nearing the end of the month again so that means I should probably post in an effort to keep some sort of continuity going on my blog. I’m coming up to eight years of blogging this April for which I hope to do a little write up on what I’ve learned so far. But…
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English Grading and Chinese Reading
This weekend is Duanwu Jie, better known as the Dragon Boat Festival. We got Thursday off and they moved Friday’s workday to Sunday in order to give people a long weekend (oh China!). Luckily I don’t work on Fridays anyway and so I have a four-day weekend. I couldn’t find any up-to-date information on where the…
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How This Semester is Shaping Up
Well I’d better post this now while I have the chance. This semester has been extremely busy and flying by at an extraordinary pace. Each semester requires us communication teachers to put together listening exams for our courses. However, in order to make it fair, we need to create NEW exams each time. That sounds like a no-brainer but…