Last Friday afternoon I rushed up to Beijing . Last Saturday evening lzh left for two weeks training for her new job. The training was in Shanghai . Well, I tried to rush up to Beijing . My last class on Friday afternoon finishes at 2:30, which leaves...
Language, man...... So I've studied French, German, Russian and Chinese to various levels and for varying lengths of time. Sometimes it just fries my brain. So, being an English teacher in a programme that is supposed to provide quality, professional...
A lot of this I was going to write days ago. But other things got in the way. Now I have a lot more to write about, or at least, I thought I did at 10 this morning. I’ll try, but I may well have forgotten half of it already. Two films: The Road to Guantanamo...
People are weird. We were lucky on the train to Dalian. Often hard seat can turn into hell in a tin can. Part of what can make it good or bad is the people sitting around you, and it was in that respect that we were lucky. In our little group there was...
So we’re in Dalian . The train ride here wasn’t quite as bad as I thought it would be. I’ve had some pretty rough experiences of hard seat, and I’m sure there are worse stories out there than I’ve experience. Anyway, everybody in our row was pretty cool....
Shit. My students got their arses seriously kicked today. Lately the school has been running a basketball competition, and one of my classes had one of the better teams. Today was the final, and they were playing. They started well and put a few points...
Tianjin is not too bad for food, really. There are some pretty damn good restaurants around. The 东北一家人 chain, or at least its branches on Pingshan Dao and Huanhu Lu, is good, and consistently so. 百饺院's branch on Pingshan Dao has only once or twice done...
In order to apply for jobs I needed to scan my passport and degree. One British organization with a school in Beijing had asked for these documents and so it suddenly became imperative to get electronic versions of those two documents. But bloody hell,...
Two things, completely unrelated except for the fact they both belong in the 'What the fuck....?' category: 1: Last night I dreamt I couldn't get to sleep. 2: On the weekend I went to a new bar. Well, that in itself isn't so terribly strange (although...
I just discovered that I have Word 2003 (of some variety) installed in my computer.... I tried a couple of the French accents, and only one of them worked. I dunno what I should do about this. More importantly: On the weekend, I acquired the coolest ever...
