I am back at work in Wuhan. It is alot colder in this part of China, and I miss the warm weather a lot.
My trip to Hainan was great. Another teacher I work with really helped me out by calling her students in Hainan.
She made a couple of phone calls, and two of her students picked me up at the airport when I arrived at 11:30 PM on New Years Eve. They then took me to dinner, brought me to a hotel, and then picked me up the next day and drove me to the train station. They paid for dinner, my hotel and my train ticket. If I had paid, this would have cost at least 100.00.
I am extremely impressed by the level of hospitality that people have shown towards me. I am also very impressed at the lengths people will go to impress or help out someone who is merely a friend of a former teacher. Very impressive. I wish I could say that my fellow countrymen are the same way, but I fear that they are not.
Today I gave a lecture about the December holidays of Christmas and Hannukah. I wanted to explain that there is both a secular and religious aspect to christmas, and to teach the students that not all Americans are christian.
One of my students came up after the lecture and made a copy of my power point presentation. I was surprised that he wanted a keepsake of the lecture!
My new years resolutions are to improve my chinese and to join a gym.
I will also try to get back to making regular posts.
My trip to Hainan was great. Another teacher I work with really helped me out by calling her students in Hainan.
She made a couple of phone calls, and two of her students picked me up at the airport when I arrived at 11:30 PM on New Years Eve. They then took me to dinner, brought me to a hotel, and then picked me up the next day and drove me to the train station. They paid for dinner, my hotel and my train ticket. If I had paid, this would have cost at least 100.00.
I am extremely impressed by the level of hospitality that people have shown towards me. I am also very impressed at the lengths people will go to impress or help out someone who is merely a friend of a former teacher. Very impressive. I wish I could say that my fellow countrymen are the same way, but I fear that they are not.
Today I gave a lecture about the December holidays of Christmas and Hannukah. I wanted to explain that there is both a secular and religious aspect to christmas, and to teach the students that not all Americans are christian.
One of my students came up after the lecture and made a copy of my power point presentation. I was surprised that he wanted a keepsake of the lecture!
My new years resolutions are to improve my chinese and to join a gym.
I will also try to get back to making regular posts.
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