Well, Life in China is crazy, and my honest advice to you is that if you’re not serious about it, don’t come.
The Chinese are honestly the most hardworking nation I could imagine. If you “love to play” then you will not fit in, it’s hard enough being a (big nosed) foreigner as it is.
Though saying that we get all sorts of special treatment.
I get taken out to dinner by University lecturers just because I’m English, and then invited to their house, and it’s all my bosses group of friends.
Apart from that, I’m working around 12hours a day between homework, class and teaching.
The teaching’s still a bit of a mess to be honest but I’m finding my feet. I’m currently on the net again trying to organise a lesson that I’ve decided’s gonna be on advertising.
Tried to find a poem on it, and the net threw up Philip Larkin: (dad this is especially for you!)
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/essential-beauty/
I’d like to point out he’s definitely a part of the English culture that should belong to all of us, and he’s been dead for almost 25 years.
Fortunately I found it here,
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/philip_larkin/poems/14564
unfortunately it’s just a little above most English people’s easy reading level, so would not do for foreign language.
I’m very tired.
And I don’t know what I can do to make this lesson good for both of my classes tomorrow, which are very different.
I’d love to give you my address, but this sodding computer’s in Russian as well, with no Chinese, and there’s no point giving it in English.
I’d love to give you my address, but this sodding computer’s in Russian as well, with no Chinese, and there’s no point giving it in English.
I do have a phone now,
(+eighty six) 136 149 62361
but it’s a mobile.
I want to sleep.
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