By Gavin | February 27, 2010
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 [...]
By Gavin | February 27, 2010
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 [...]
By Gavin | February 21, 2010
I wanted to make it through the next day without any problems. I actually wrote down in my journal that this was a goal of mine. Didn’t happen. I was assigned to a Junior 2 class. Junior 2 students in China are the equivalent to eighth graders in America. Each class had four Chinese teachers, [...]
By Gavin | February 21, 2010
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 [...]