Category: Blog
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National Day Break, Books, and the 798 Art District
Well just over a week into the next semester and I’m on another break already. China has their National Day break from October 1st to 7th and so that means I have a full week off. Why don’t I go somewhere? Well, I was meaning to go to the Phillippines but I never got around…
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What do you do in Beijing, Steve?
Well it’s back at ‘er this week. Oddly, I’m glad to be back in the classroom with a host of new students, even though I had momentarily forgotten how to teach. The last week has been pretty busy both preparing for classes and helping the new teachers get on their feet and come to some…
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A Return to Beijing
So now I’m physically back in Beijing another year older and hopefully a little bit more wise. It has been a while since I last wrote since I took the summer off to travel. I managed to cross overland from Beijing to Almaty, Kazakhstan before flying to Paris for a week and then Canada for…
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From China to Canada and… back?
Just a quick update that I’ve now arrived safely back in Canada and will be here for exactly six more days before flying back to China to begin my second year there. I’ll be updating the website with a few more posts about my travels, particularly those about my journey to China’s western region. I’ve…
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End of term and an update on my progress in the Chinese language
School School is all but over as exams are done and now it’s just finalizing te grades. Since I work at one of the better universities in the country (a fact of which I am honoured), the grading is necessarily super tough. A lot of these kids put in a lot of work but the…