Thursday, November 15, 2012

Giving a Speech about Thanksgiving, on Thanksgiving

One of my first lectures will be to give a speech about the american holiday of Thanksgiving to students.  Because I am far afield from the US, it is assumed that because we won't have alot to do on the holiday, I won't mind giving a 40 minute lecture about Thanksgiving.  I actually am not really adverse to doing it because I have had a rather significant amount of downtime while waiting for the students to get through their mid terms.

I got to China on November 4.  It is now November 16th.  During that time I have done alot of planning to teach, but no actual teaching.  Ergo, I have alot of pent up energy that I would like to burn off actually working for a change.

I also have firmed up plans for an all you can eat turkey feast at a local restaurant here in Wuhan.  For about US 25.00-30.00 I will be able to gorge on Turkey and various thanksgiving delicacies.  I am bringing along my "chinese handler".

My Chinese handler probably deserves his own post.  He is a very nice and mature young man.  He is my appointed helper and overseer.  I joke that he is a handler.  He is fluent in German, and has a very wierd sort of german accent when speaking chinese.  He could do the voice of a perfect bond villain.  He took me out to dinner where I had some great local food.  I think I will work on getting him his own post.

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