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This morning I was at the gym* and suddenly it dawned on me that I could learn written Chinese without actually learning any spoken Chinese. So far I have been hesitant about learning to write Chinese. Learning to speak Chinese is daunting enough already, and I thought it might just too ambitious to learn both. I didn’t really get the point of ( Read more... ) -
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Things have been hectic... Work is crazy right now and I'm also still doing my TEFL course. I'm well past the half way point now, so it's going well, but it's hard sometimes to find the energy to do it. It's not that difficult, but I want to do it well, so I need to really sit down and focus for a few hours to get it done, and that's hard when you' ( Read more... ) -
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Two amazing things I have to mention that happened to me recently ( Read more... ) -
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Alright. Time to tell you my news.
This is the short version: I am leaving my job at the end of this year, and I am moving to China in January, to teach English for a year or so.
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It's June, finally! I don't know what was going on, but May seemed like a really long month this year. Time was going by so slowly, I thought it was never going to end... But now it's over. I don't know why it was going so slow, it's not like there's anything special happening in June or something, June is just another uneventful month, really, but ( Read more... ) -
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Today I gave the last of a series of three workshops I have set up for incoming exchange students. It's probably the coolest thing I've done in my whole working life, and I'm really pleased with how it turned out. I set up a workshop about intercultural communication, which means I prepared and gave the three sessions. Not a lot of students signed ( Read more... ) -
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Ugh, I'm tired... The four day weekend was lovely and I got a lot of much needed rest, but now I feel so tired again... I didn't sleep well last night, for no particular reason, so today was a bit difficult. I guess it's an early night for me tonight! I'm downloading the new episode of "Glee", but if it doesn't hurry up a bit it'll have to wait ( Read more... ) -
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Four day weekend, hurrah! I've had a tough week these past four days (too many activities, not enough sleep) and I am very happy I now get to do absolutely nothing for four days. Well, there's a concert tomorrow night and an Easter brunch at the in-laws on Sunday, but nothing else planned. Which is a big change from previous weekends ( Read more... ) -
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So I was in Finland for a few days this week. I had to go to Riga for work and decided to take a couple of extra days off and fly to Finland (which is really rather cheap from Riga!), just for the hell of it. It was lovely. First I hung out with emiliachi for an evening, eating great Asian food and watching "Lost in Translation", and just talking a lot. ( Read more... )