My Darling Sister, you'd best start thinking about what to wear for the flight.
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There are only 24 days until you guys arrive in Beijing!
My Darling Sister, you'd best start thinking about what to wear for the flight. X
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I'm talking to a student about Saturday night. He wants Anna and me to present The King's Speech to members of English Club. He asks me to give him a copy of the film (with subtitles), a photo of the two of us, and brief bio.
English Club then does this with them: Call me crazy, but I'm enjoying the food on campus so much more this semester than last, and Scary Alley's stalls trump the lot. Here are some photos from Scary Alley to whet your appetites.
X Hey, Photos from our weekend trip to Nanjing are up here. They're limited as we spent a fair bit of time shopping, browsing in the bookshop and in Starbucks - I've been boring students for a week now about Starbucks with gap fills and listening activities, they were pleased on Monday when I brought in some pictures and a new coffee cup. We spent an exhausting afternoon at the Museum of the Nanjing Massacre of 1937 (beginning their invasion of China, the Japanese army murdered, raped, burned everybody who hadn't fled the city). They've unearthed a selection of the 300'000 bodies from the massacre - the top layer of one mass grave is visible, skeletons in situ are exposed. Grim, but surprisingly tastefully done. On the Sunday, we took the cable car up Purple Gold Mountain (Zijin Shan) and, instead of heading to one of the ancient Ming tombs of Dr Sun Yatsen's mausoleum, we got sidetracked by an abandoned, yet photogenic, building and messed around taking arty photos until it was time to head back down for lunch and the train home. We had a great time, it was good fun travelling with Brian and Sherree and so refreshing to go travelling again... I miss Spring Festival! X Read a review of the Sunflower International Youth Hostel, Rd. 80, Zhanyuan, Fuzimiao, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, CHINA.
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We're going to Nanjing for the weekend with two of the other teachers - Brian (Canadian) and Sherree (Kiwi). We're taking the night train tonight, which arrives in Nanjing at about 7am tomorrow morning. Night trains have got to be one of the best things about travelling in China, even in the hard sleeper carriages. We're taking the fast train back on Sunday afternoon, getting back about 11.30pm. I've got class on Monday morning, no lesson plan as yet, and only a vague idea of what I might teach. Jolly good! Photos, of course, to follow here. X ... yesterday was International Women's Day. I'm not sure if it was intentional, but here it's as if the whole thing was a Chinese idea. Preparations for "Chinese Women's Day" started last week with...
Lin: Sen Sen (Ed), I want to ask you something. Sen Sen (me) is rushing around with photocopies of pointless crosswords in hand, cursing the broken printer, with four minutes until the start of class. Sen Sen can't remember in which room he's supposed to be teaching in four minutes, so really ought to have left the office already to begin a search of the six-storey building for a familiar face. Me: Of course, Lin. What's up? Hey,
I'd forgotten about this, but last semester we were all asked/told to submit a four page teaching plan for an example class by the end of the week for review by a professor in the Department. In hindsight, some of may have been a bit snotty about having to do it: at the time, our pay was about a week late, again, and nobody ever, ever writes a four page plan for a class. Hey,
I've started looking at train times for getting between Beijing - Zhengzhou - Shanghai - Xian and have started thinking about which classes I'll need to rearrange and teach before you arrive - I'm going to work it out so that I can spend loads of time with you . I'm going to need to tell The Boss which nights we'll need extra rooms soon - I was wondering if you guys had given any more thought to where you'd like to go/ what you'd like to see and do? X Despite having eaten really well while we were travelling, I was really starting to miss Chinese food by the end of the six weeks. That's possibly the reason that everything looks, and tastes, twice as good as I remember it from last semester. Each of these dishes costs no more than 40p at the school canteen...
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