Hmmm, I have been a little slack on the blogging front of late, in my defence I have been busy with work (and will be most of the day tomorrow as well).
Absolutely sod all happened Thursday bar feverishly completing lesson plans (as indeed will be the case tomorrow) as in the next few months there will be an inspection by government education officials. The university wants to move further up the ladder and get authorised to award post-graduate degrees as well and so all must be in order.
Friday was just the usual hard work and this morning I just had one early class at the little school (three next Saturday though as two of the full time teachers there are getting married). As usual I went shopping afterwards and to my huge delight I spotted that Lottemart are (for now - once they run out they probably won’t restock) selling oven chips! Well, sort of a cross between chips and French fries but if they are any good they will be a lot more convenient than faffing about making my own oven chips. I bought a couple of bags (only half a kilo each) with the intention of defrosting a gammon steak - chips are de rigeur with them, at least for me. Pineapples won’t be in season here until mid-winter but I thought I would use some out of a tin or a jar. In there and RT I can buy peaches, pears, apricots, mandarins etc in jars but no sign of pineapple! Incredible.
From six to eight this evening the Lingdian foreign language society finally put on a show to welcome the freshmen. Three out of four foreign teachers attended, the notable absence being the Korean teacher, although I know not whether because she wasn’t interested or they forgot to invite her. As per, yours truly P T Barnum was coerced without notice into taking the stage for a game. It involved getting the audience to guess a secret word by my only using body language. I’m pretty good at that but one word, “Panda” gave me cause for consternation. How else can you get it across without sitting cross-legged miming tearing off a bamboo shoot and chewing on it? Well, yes, of course they guessed correctly but then there was the small matter of me getting up off the floor and back on my feet! No easy task, and a reminder for me that I am not the man I used to be! Slightly undignified to say the least.
Jim the hero did a very good job of motivating the newcomers I am glad to say and there were some enjoyable acts put on by the students.
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