First off, thank you everyone who has been commenting on my blog, I miss all of you! Please keep it up.
I received my schedule today, of course classes start tomorrow so... I teach two classes tomorrow, 2 classes on Thursday, and no classes on Friday (Margot: Just for the record, I did not negotiate for this, My first schedule didn't have me teacher on Monday or Tuesday, so at least now I'm working 4 days a week). My Mondays and Tuesdays are very full.
The students have returned today, I haven't seen so many kids actually excited about school before, very odd. I'll post some pictures from my classroom tomorrow (5 years of teaching and I finally have my own room, I just had to got to China).
Today has been quite the adventure, Medical checkup this morning, exchange money at the bank (not the shady guys out front with the sacks of suspect cash), go back out with Michael and Skyla to Computer City (imagine a all digital flee market with 3 floors and countless booths), go back out with Gail, Michael, and Skyla to Dennis (yet another department store) and then insure I'm set for class tomorrow.
I don't have a whole lot of time time, so here are some pictures, I'll let all of you know how my first day went tomorrow.
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| First Faculty meeting, Exactly like back home, but with assigned seats and mostly in Chinese |
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| Shady Bank Guys, they offer a higher exchange rate, but some of their bills can be suspect |
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| Dennis... |
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| Mr. Zhi (our department leader) gave me a tour of Old Town Luoyang. This building is 200 years old and still used daily |
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| The "Original" city gates (Roughly 500 years old) |
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| A 500 year old signal tower (right between a bread vender and a "meat" guy |
Zaijian!
Hey Ben...It looks like you are in a magical city! How absolutely wonderful to be surrounded by all that history!
ReplyDeleteVery cool man...keep the updates coming!
ReplyDeleteOk...so how the heck do you participate in a faculty meeting that happens mostly in Chinese? Just curious of course. Worst case scenario...at least you can say "huh???"" Looks really cool so far. I'm sure it is going to go really well!!
ReplyDeleteDon't know what Ginny & I would do if seats were assigned at our faculty meetings. How would we express our snarkiness?
ReplyDeleteYay for your blog! You're such a great ambassador for China; I want to get on a plane immediately and head over. Glad to see that you're happy and well!