Today was my first full day working with the students. It was a mixed bag. They started me off with kids. Pre-teen kids. Who don’t speak much English. Being taught by me. Not exactly the sort of combination that makes for a stellar class. The kids were fine, I’m just not the right teacher for [...]
So, the big news that I left out of the last post is this: I’ve had a job offer. Both Jason and I interviewed (via phone) with a school in Kun Shan (I’ll link to a map when I have a good net connection). The city is about 30 miles west of Shanghai and is [...]
Aug 7, 04:00 Once again, I’m writing this offline instead of directly to the blog. I’m finally in a place that has an internet connection… except for the fact that it doesn’t. I think they’re sending the data by carrier pigeon–one byte at a time. The connections here (at this hotel) are very flaky. I [...]
[Aug 6th, written offline and posted later] I spent the night in Hong Kong and made it into China today. Only two minor snags: 1) I almost left my laptop back at a train station 2) I didn’t fill out a form at customs, and had to step out of line, fill it out, and [...]
[This was written offline and is just being posted] I’m at 10,000 feet (rather low for an international flight) [Oops! later on I realized it was 10,000 meters--about 32,000 feet] just starting to pass over Hudson Bay. And… for some reason my in-flight information is in Spanish. I’ll be posting this to the Geekistan blog [...]
