Tag: travel
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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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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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Midterm Recovery
This week is midterms which means that once the exam is over and the grading done then I have no other classes for the week. That’s great because the film festival has been going on and I’ve been taking the opportunity not only to see films but, moreover, take the bus there which allows me…
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Toronto, Canada: TIFF, TUF and the TSX
I don’t think I’ve ever written about Toronto before, despite having been there a few times since beginning my near-constant wanderings five years ago. This time, however, there were a couple of things I wanted to see: the Toronto International Film Festival, regarded as one of the premiere film events in the world of cinema,…