January 12, 2017 10:45 pm Beijing, China I forgot to post a blog yesterday, but I really want to talk about two things tonight. The first is what happened yesterday (a team building party) and the second is something Abba put on my heart to share (and a cool coincidence). They are very different, so they don’t make sense to go into the same post.
恭贺新禧!
Dec. 31, 2016 11:30 pm Beijing, China Racing in at the very end! So the last day of 2016 passed with not much fanfare. I went to work, taught a lot of classes, and headed home. I did have my first Open Door (where I teach a class in front of parents) at 8:45 this morning. It went extremely well! The parents all had great
Catching Up
Dec. 29, 2016 11:00 pm Beijing, China Wanna know why I haven’t written in 4 days? Anyone wanna take a guess? No, it’s not because I’ve been crazy busy. No, it’s not because I’ve been too exhausted from my amazing adventures in China. No, it’s not because my fingers were chopped off and now I have to type with my nose (geez, your imagination takes
A Life of Learning
Dec. 22, 2016 10:00 pm Beijing, China So here’s the thing about being a teacher, you’re never done with school. I mean, obviously, you’re in school every day teaching the kids. But I mean that a teacher never stops having to take courses and certifications and so on. I know, I’ve only been a teacher for two months and I have no actual background in
For When I am Weak, Then I am Strong
Dec. 21, 2016 9:30 pm Beijing, China Sorry, I’ve been really bad about updating lately. To be fair, the past couple of days have been spent in my room. Remember how I talked about the pollution being really bad when I wrote a couple days ago? Okay, so schools had to shut down through today (Wednesday). As a result, we didn’t have any classes. EF,