Blogs
- Shares A Woman Who Never Grows Up
- Looking at this title, you may be puzzled. How is it possible for a woman never to grow up? Or is it a mistake? It should be a girl who is yet to grow. Well, I have to tell the story step by step. First thing first: she is a married woman, not a girl. I give her this label for two reasons: Fir ...
- Shares Retrospection of a Reading class
- Being a teacher, we are often asked to do teaching retrospection. I think it is a good idea despite the fact that I seldom write articles on it. However, I do think a lot after giving a successful or unexpectedly “bad” lesson. Teaching is an art, which means you will never master it overnigh ...
- Shares A Sparkle of Thought
- These days I have been mysteriously in low spirits. I don’t mean I have been very sad or in a bad mood. I just don’t feel like doing things. Life seems to have lost its charm and there appears to be nothing to live for. I don’t know the causes for sure. Is it the work pressure? Yes but no. ...
- Shares Are You the One to be Promoted?
- The other day, several leading officials of the municipal education commission came and inspected our school and work. Among them was a young lady, who used to be my colleague many years ago. So I said casually in the office, “I never thought that she would be promoted to be vice director of ...
- Shares My Answers to the 24 Questions Raised by One of My Former Students.
- Just this afternoon, I received a letter from a former student who is in college. She asked if I would be kind enough to answer 24 questions. It seemed more like a test than a questionnaire. I felt a little reluctant at first, but I agreed, seeing she appeared rather sincere. Maybe it was just ...
- Shares A Scene of the Classroom: A Great Person or Not?
- These days we are having a unit concerning great people. As usual, I did a warming up to prepare the students before actually learning the new unit. I asked them what qualities a great person has or what kind of people can be regarded as great persons. To make it easy, I gave them some adjectiv ...
- Shares Chill Out, My Dear Friend!
- One of the advantages of living in the 21st century is that we can hear numerous buzzwords. The most common one is Tanding (淡定), which means calm down basically. However, language is usually more complicated than it seems to be. There’s something lost if we simply translate it into E ...
- Shares Driving My Way Clumsily to the Future
- It has been about a month since I bought a Skoda. Having a car of my own had been one of my dreams. I searched the Internet and kept following news concerning cars for quite a long time. I did research and compared various brands of cars, trying to find the one that I truly liked. My eyes were ...
- Shares A Relaxing Trip to Wuyi
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The pace of life has been getting faster in China. We are actually pushed ahead by the big waves of the social development. Consequently, health problems may occur, both physically and mentally. We do need to actively adapt ourselves to this challenge of life. One way to address this problem i ...
- Shares Who will be the Next after Gaddafi?
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was finally captured and subsequently killed on Oct 20, 2011. The world was surprised at the way he died after his 42 years’ rule over Libya. He was still alive when pulled out of a sewage pipe near Sirte. However, he was beaten, dragged about by the ha ...
