I don’t think it can be overstated how much Chinese students love Lady Gaga. This may sound like an exaggeration, but Lady Gaga might just spark a revolution here. ….No, seriously, when I was at that damn Crazy English Camp, small children under the age of 10 were listening to her music. It’s not hard [...]
The back alley near our school is called Nine Street. It’s your typical back alley: garbage, construction, trinkets, small restaurants. On some days, it really smells, and on others, you can barely maneuver it due to trucks hauling material down the narrow street. It is so off the beaten path that Beer Monster and I [...]
Not sure if I’ve written about this: corn on the cob is sold on the street here. Men with food carts sell them usually near bus stops. You can also get sweet potatoes or stinky tofu. Chinese people love tofu, which I never knew before moving here. But, the corn on the cob continues to [...]
Li Yang ruined my last class with my students. That bastard picked that time period, when all the foreign teachers had class, to sign autographs. I really enjoyed my class and most of them were in line for that asshole. I pulled them out of line with five minutes left so I could have my [...]
Following Li Yang’s “I’m mature. Nothing offends me” comments, we walked back to the hotel for lunch. We ate lunch and dinner in a private room at the hotel’s restaurant. They put out the same buffet for each meal. Good food, but the same stuff for each meal for 12 days. …. At lunch that [...]
I found a series of sketchy back alleys across the street from my apartment complex. The area begins behind the row of shows Beer Monster and I call the Welding District, and it stretches to the Wal-Mart near our school. One of the streets has a plethora of restaurants, one of which looks incredibly out [...]
During his lectures, Li also taught English, if you call yelling the same word or sentence over and over again teaching. He repeated the following sentence one day: “Learning can become a way of life which helps you to achieve your greatest potential.”
He yelled this sentence over and over, breaking it down word by word. [...]
Last year, a friend of mine worked at an English Camp during the Spring Festival holiday. She returned to Shenzhen with 4,500 RMB, close to $660, for 10 day’s work. She talked about how networking at the camp had gotten her more than enough tutoring opportunities and possibly a job at a university. She said [...]
