So tonight's dinner, bought from the supermarket, is costing us somewhere in the region of three times the price of lunch, eaten in one of the BeiGongDa cafeterias. I would suggest we turn totally vegetarian, except that I don't believe inflation will...
I am now the proud owner of a fold-up bicycle. As the owner of a fold-up bike, I'm now so cool that I would be driving a Ford if my bank account and my conscience could afford it (what, you think I'd willingly go adding to Beijing's already bad air pollution?...
So I'm pretty happy with over-blog's version 2, but one thing disturbs me (I've only just found the time to start poking around the back end of version 2), and that is that in the design section we can choose from several different "ethnic" themes. I...
First up: Some food for thought. Now on to the rambling: I was only planning on ducking into the office to check what time my Monday class was. Because with this teacher from Oz is here for these three teaching weeks, my schedule is all up the wop, so...
This article is a good illustration of the collossal gulf between my Kiwi upbringing and the education system in which I have spent all of my working life. Senior high school students in east China's Zhejiang Province can learn life skills such as how...
So last night I said I was "too tired to attempt anything deep and intellectual". And then gk decided lzh and I were going to go over to her house for a few drinks. You can take the girl out of Dongbei, but you can't take Dongbei out of the girl. It was...
lzh seems to have acquired an admirer. There's a wee puppy that lives around here- I've seen him several times before, and I think he's kinda cute, although lzh doesn't agree- who today decided he's going to follow lzh everywhere. She went out to the...
So yesterday was spent getting half of our wedding photos taken. For those who don't know, in China wedding photos are done before the wedding so that albums and DVDs will be available for the wedding guests to look at. They are also often done by specialist...
They put make-up on me. They made me get up really early and traipse halfway across town and then they put make up on me. Then there was a trip up into the mountains and photos were taken. Then eventually we managed to sneak in some lunch before the minibus...
I realised today: At BeiGongDa, each teaching period is 45 minutes. So, 22 "class hours" is actually only 16.5 real hours. That's right, only 16 and a half hours in actual face to face contact with the students. That's not so bad. Of course, there's still...
