I held my first lecture which was well received by the students. After my 40 minute lecture about the social customs of Thanksgiving and the historical origins of the pilgrims and Thanksgiving, I had 15 minutes of some very insightful questions posed by the students. I quite honestly did not expect there to be such a high level of english comprehension among the students.
One of my favorite questions was "If Massasoit had known that the Indians would fight with the Europeans, would he still have helped the Pilgrims?" Obviously, a rather smart kid to not only have listened to my lecture closely, but to also have the english skills and knowledge of American History to be able to pose the question.
It is really an honor to have such good students. I hope they will enjoy my subsequent lectures.
In other news, I got a stipend to tide me over until I officially start work. They are being exceptionally gracious to me.
I used my pay to buy a portable DVD player and viewer. I bought a lenovo for about 85.00 US or 475 rmb. With it, I went and bought some dubiously licensed DVD's for about 4.00. I got three hollywood movies that must have some special arrangement to allow their movies to appear on DVD here in china while they are still in the theaters. I can't believe they could possibly be pirated products! In China? Are you kidding me?
Today, I came to the office of the agency that I work for and have been using the Internet here and meeting the other people who work for this company. They are quite nice. I had a very tasty lunch of a spicy hot wok fish, with tasty cucumbers and some sort of other vegetable dish. All eaten by the entire office staff together in a conference room. Quite nice to eat with everyone and for it to be quite tasty.
I got to work by taking a taxi for 40 minutes. It cost about 10.00 US or 60rmb.
Good day so far. I downloaded the charlie brown Thanksgiving special to use to show kids. At least I paid for that on iTunes....
One of my favorite questions was "If Massasoit had known that the Indians would fight with the Europeans, would he still have helped the Pilgrims?" Obviously, a rather smart kid to not only have listened to my lecture closely, but to also have the english skills and knowledge of American History to be able to pose the question.
It is really an honor to have such good students. I hope they will enjoy my subsequent lectures.
In other news, I got a stipend to tide me over until I officially start work. They are being exceptionally gracious to me.
I used my pay to buy a portable DVD player and viewer. I bought a lenovo for about 85.00 US or 475 rmb. With it, I went and bought some dubiously licensed DVD's for about 4.00. I got three hollywood movies that must have some special arrangement to allow their movies to appear on DVD here in china while they are still in the theaters. I can't believe they could possibly be pirated products! In China? Are you kidding me?
Today, I came to the office of the agency that I work for and have been using the Internet here and meeting the other people who work for this company. They are quite nice. I had a very tasty lunch of a spicy hot wok fish, with tasty cucumbers and some sort of other vegetable dish. All eaten by the entire office staff together in a conference room. Quite nice to eat with everyone and for it to be quite tasty.
I got to work by taking a taxi for 40 minutes. It cost about 10.00 US or 60rmb.
Good day so far. I downloaded the charlie brown Thanksgiving special to use to show kids. At least I paid for that on iTunes....
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