Another bus ride Yesterday was my day off and after a leisurely start to the day the presence of blue sky precipitated my movement out the door after I decided on a bus route. I chose to head west because I’ve never been there before and a supermarket was near the required bus stop and […]
Student concert Last night one of my ex-students took me to a concert on campus in the big theatre. One of my students invited me too but she left it to the last minute, common timing around here. It lasted for 2 hours. I’ve been invited to another in about 5 weeks where one of […]
Sending a proxy to the doctor I returned from Shandong under the weather. I improved and then relapsed with new symptoms. It seemed that I came to China with medicine for everything but what I had. A few days later one of the ex students visited and decided that I needed medical attention. Students go […]
Trip to Shandong I booked onto a 3 day Chinese tour to Shandong during the National Day holiday. One of my students offered to accompany me and it soon grew by three more. We met the bus and headed off at 8pm collecting a few more additional passengers at several non descript locations in other […]
Another milestone On Mid-Autumn festival evening several students visited bringing fruit and moon cakes. The fruit included pears, persimmons, oranges and grapes in addition to some chestnuts. We sat around talking over their bounty and the college’s moon cakes. The grapes provided a bit of a challenge as health information for countries such as China […]