Tag: teaching abroad
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Back to the “Beej”
The rush is back on and the heat is still intense but the humidity isn’t as bad as Japan while the air is dense with either smog or the scent of rubber from a nearby track field. The crush of bodies and the unapologetic maneuvering (i.e. pushing and shoving) is back on. I feel my throat…
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Hot and Green
So Beijing has one of those funny temperatures that goes from “Wow, it’s kinda cold” to “Wow, it’s hot outside.” Well, it recently reached the latter part of that temperature scale with the mercury easily climbing to 20C or higher. Now, since most of you reading this here blog have probably never lived or perhaps even visited China…
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2015 is over already?!
I don’t know about you, but 2015 seemed to fly by pretty quickly. Thinking back to what I did throughout the year, it’s easy to see why. If I wasn’t prepping for class then I was in class. If I wasn’t prepping or in class, then I was grading essays. After summer was out, I was on…
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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…