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
Dec. 25, 2016 10:00 pm Beijing, China Merry Christmas, everyone! Do you know what’s my favorite part about Christmas? No, it’s not the presents under the tree or the stocking over the fireplace. My favorite part of Christmas is the joy that surrounds us as we celebrate the gift of Ch—st J—s. But, yeah, opening presents also is a personal favorite moment of mine. It’s
Dec. 24, 2016 11:30 pm Beijing, China Merry Christmas Eve! Christmas is interesting here in China. Obviously, the religious aspect is not a big factor. There’s very little celebration of the actual meaning of Christmas. That said, the ch—ches that are here have Christmas services. I’m interested to see what ch—ch is going to look like when we go tomorrow. But even without that aspect,
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,
Nov. 30, 2016 11:30 pm Beijing, China Today has been quite a long day. Although I was able to sleep in for a little bit, I’ve been doing a lot of running. Because of receiving our passports back with new Residence Permits, Brian and I had to go re-register at the police station. Emily was kind enough to take us around 11 this morning. There
