Time to begin! A Tuesday ...
Alright, here it is ...
So today I taught two English classes: PFI or Prepare for IELTS (the IELTS score determines whether the students have the english skills to learn in Australia or England - like the TOEFL in the US), and AC1. The AC1 course teaches students to write a report. They will write a report on the "Triple Bottom Line", learning vocabulary, citation, plagiarism, paraphrasing and how to write a report along the way!
Tomorrow is Finance day down on the Zha Bei campus of Shanghai University. I teach two basic Corporate Finance courses there in english to about 90 students. The students are currently emailing me ... beep, there comes one now! ... their assignment. They are to download the daily prices of the company they are investigating to an Excel spreadsheet. Then they are to determine the mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variation - yes, riskiness - for five years plus of data. YES that is 1450+ observations! Luckily the assignment is very easy in Excel!
Inner Mongolia - I am just a bit tired as we returned from Hohhot (pronounced HUhot), Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia) on Saturday night at 9:15 pm. We flew into the leading edge of a
Typhoon! The second typhoon since I have been here! Monday was interesting as it poured rain all day and was the first day back to work for the country!!! Yes, most of the country of China shuts down for National Day week. We make up the time though! We worked on Saturday of last week for Thursday and Sunday for Friday. At the end of the term (they are 10 week terms) we get to finish the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday that we missed too. Even the stock markets shut down! Monday was their first day back after a week off! I laugh as Wall Street doesn't get more than three days of vacation ever (with the one exception of Sept. 11).
Inner Mongolia was a blast - from Genghis Khan's mausoleum to Singing Sand Gorge to Mongolian Hot Pots (awesome food), Buddhist temples and sleeping in a yurt (a Mongol bao) in the grasslands beyond the mountains only a couple of hours from the rest of Mongolia! However, more about the trip will have to wait until tomorrow once I have finished the Finance classes for this week!
So today I taught two English classes: PFI or Prepare for IELTS (the IELTS score determines whether the students have the english skills to learn in Australia or England - like the TOEFL in the US), and AC1. The AC1 course teaches students to write a report. They will write a report on the "Triple Bottom Line", learning vocabulary, citation, plagiarism, paraphrasing and how to write a report along the way!
Tomorrow is Finance day down on the Zha Bei campus of Shanghai University. I teach two basic Corporate Finance courses there in english to about 90 students. The students are currently emailing me ... beep, there comes one now! ... their assignment. They are to download the daily prices of the company they are investigating to an Excel spreadsheet. Then they are to determine the mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variation - yes, riskiness - for five years plus of data. YES that is 1450+ observations! Luckily the assignment is very easy in Excel!
Inner Mongolia - I am just a bit tired as we returned from Hohhot (pronounced HUhot), Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia) on Saturday night at 9:15 pm. We flew into the leading edge of a
Typhoon! The second typhoon since I have been here! Monday was interesting as it poured rain all day and was the first day back to work for the country!!! Yes, most of the country of China shuts down for National Day week. We make up the time though! We worked on Saturday of last week for Thursday and Sunday for Friday. At the end of the term (they are 10 week terms) we get to finish the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday that we missed too. Even the stock markets shut down! Monday was their first day back after a week off! I laugh as Wall Street doesn't get more than three days of vacation ever (with the one exception of Sept. 11).
Inner Mongolia was a blast - from Genghis Khan's mausoleum to Singing Sand Gorge to Mongolian Hot Pots (awesome food), Buddhist temples and sleeping in a yurt (a Mongol bao) in the grasslands beyond the mountains only a couple of hours from the rest of Mongolia! However, more about the trip will have to wait until tomorrow once I have finished the Finance classes for this week!
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