When I was teaching at a university in China, most of the dorms were located in the northwest section of the campus. The dorms were heavily populated, and to be honest with you, poorly illuminated in my opinion. At the end of each hall there were bathrooms with...
A fellow teacher at the university where I taught in China suggested to me that I show a movie to my class sometime. Hearing and seeing a movie in a foreign language they were studying would help them with some of the slang terms we use, and help them with the speed...
When I was teaching at a university in China in 2003, I spent a lot of time teaching in classrooms just like the one pictured below. The room may not have been spectacular, but the students certainly were! One day, one of the female students looked sad, so I asked her...
The Chinese are very financially responsible as a rule, so I think that is what is at the foundation of my story for today. It is VERY common to view laundry hanging out to dry in China. For a country with all of the wealth that China has, you would expect to see many...
As someone who considers himself a fisherman, I often enjoyed the views I had from the area around the campus where I was teaching. There was a dirt road that ran along the east side of the campus, and the building where I lived was right beside the dirt road. My...