❤ Ran into my student at the Starbucks today. She came up and said hi. Then she told me that she’s seen me there once before – but she was too scared to say hello. She was so proud of herself today! Kept giggling with her friends behind the counter. Took us a bit, but we figured out her major and her class. I love my students so much. Watching them blossom, grow braver, and just mature is such a wonderful blessing. #thegoodlife #iloveteaching
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Inside Voice, Outside Voice, #Teaching Voice
12 SepRoger (the totally awesome IT guy) came to class today to install a new microphone. He asked if I needed one. I said “No, I’m pretty loud without it.” Girl in the back of a room of roughly 96 students — “Oh yes, we can hear very good.” Me: 🤣😂. . . Roger: Oh. I think you do not need this. It’s okay. Me: LOL. I thought not.
Blog Official ~ I’m #Moving!
19 JunLadies and Gentlemen, it’s time ⌚to make the official blog 🖋announcement📣 – I’m moving again! I’ll be staying here in China🗺, but after 3 years in central Henan I’m going North. Way north. As in Arctic Circle ❄ level north!
We will be moving to a city called Changchun in the province of Jilin. For those of you living in China, it’s up by Harbin – land of the ice sculptures. For those of you who have no idea what those words even mean – it’s up in the arm of China that is surrounded by Mongolia (great! Horses 🐴!), Siberia (Brrrrrr💂), and North Korea (0_0)❌❗.
See the blue circle in the map up there? That’s Changchun. I’m moving clear up to the land of Winter Olympics⛷🏂⛸, Forests with wild Bears 🐻 and Tigers, and Deer Antler soup. 😵 Craziness I tell you!
No, actually it looks like it will be really nice. 😀 The university 🏫 is called NorthEast Normal (NENU) and I will be working with the joint program with Rutgers University 🏫. I will be teaching Economics 💹 and International Business 📈 this semester. Economics and maybe some other classes next semester. The hours are a bit more than at my current university, but the pay is better, the students are of a higher academic quality (1st tier univ. instead of 4th tier univ.), I get most of the same benefits🚪, and it’s a new adventure 📷 awaiting me!
I was delighted to find out that one of my students and good friends 👭(Simon and his girlfriend Alice) live about 15 minutes away from my school. They are moving home and already invited me to BBQ. Such a relief to have someone in the area! I have two students👩👩 from Mongolia that I am hoping to get a chance to visit, and the train goes from Changchun directly to Moscow💂! 🚉 Course it takes a week one way, but still – I think I can get up to see Russia. Not taking time to see North Korea ❌ – I’m sure it’s lovely, but not my cup of tea. Still, that’s a lot of new open doors 🚪 waiting to be checked out! 😀
I’ll keep you up to date on the details as I go. My schedule 🕔 this week is insane. Tomorrow I leave at 7:30 for the city (one hour) to get a Physical 😷done (surprise! wasn’t expecting this – just found out this afternoon). Then on from there a 3 hour trip to Beijing 🚝 (+ 1.5 hour subway ride to my stop) for some government paperwork on Wednesday. Then back to school 🏫so I can give Final Exams on Thursday. Friday, back to the city to pick up my physical 🏥results. Back to school 🏫to grade and get signatures. Then on Saturday, entering grades into the computer. Sunday off to Changchun ✈to get all my paperwork complete. Monday back to school 🏫to pack and get ready. It’s a wild ride, but I am so excited to welcome the new year!
#Emoji Economics
10 Jun
Lol – explaining MRTS and upper level economics theories to a student via emoji and wechat messenger. 😂
The ways we adapt to the ESL academic class!
Lovely #Memories – Sad #Goodbyes
8 May
My students returned to school today for graduation photos. They do not take classes their final semester, so most already have jobs, internships, etc. Some are already leaving for grad school! I’ve known them for 3 years – love them so much!
In our university, students don’t pick their classes. Everyone in their class takes the same 10-11 classes together each semester. Then they share a dorm. So all 60 students in her class (Finance 1, 2013) have been together pretty much 24 hr a day for 4 years. Making great memories, but sad goodbyes.
Life of an Foreign #Teacher ~ Computer Catastrophes
4 May1:20 hour into class, for the 5th week in a row, all the computers crashed AGAIN. Completely deleting all the students hard work. Even saved documents were wiped off.
Class Leader immediately: Don’t worry teacher, I know. I will go make them come.
Me; why, yes Kevin darling. That might be an excellent idea. (**Insert Angry Face). And see if you can find the building manager. Or their boss. Or the boss of the boss.
Class: oooohhhh. *Waits eagerly and vengefully to enjoy the fireworks about to commence*
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A Lovely Day For #Flowers
20 Mar
I just ❤ the Beautiful trees here on campus! Spring is one of my favorite seasons!
#Teaching Success
16 Mar
Happy St. Patricj’s day from #china! Starting off well! One if the #students was asking a friend to translate what I was teaching them about the holiday. He calledme ‘Beauty Teacher’. 👸 MADE MY DAY! ❤ I obviously got some #goodluck somewhere today! 🍀
#Students – Always Pushing, Pushing
7 Mar👸Me: Only one rule – You MUST use nasdaq.com or marketwatch.com so you can become familiar with international finance tools. It’s important to know how the rest of the world works! 💰📈📊💹🌐
👧Student: Can I use this random Chinese company I found on a different website. It’s really easy for me to find cause it’s all Chinese.
👸Me: Is it on nasdaq or marketwatch?
👧Student: . . . . No.
👸Me: . . . . . . . . . .😒🙄
👧Student: Never mind Teacher! I Know.
👸Me: 😅🤣😋🙃
Students – They’re always pushing, pushing.
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