Well, we have a party tonight!  SILC is putting on a dinner at a Seafood Restaurant!!  We leave in an hour (4:30 pm), yes it is IN the city - near to where I will live next year.  I'll still work out here in Jia Ding, but next year I will live on the #1 line (subway) and just a few minutes from MANY places - just a quick taxi ride if nothing else!

I teach at 8 am, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next term (Sept - Nov).  Monday's teaching is 4 hours, Tuesday and Wednesday are two hours.  On Wednesday, I will also teach from 12:10 to 4 pm.  Each day I am also responsible for related work they would like me to do - English work on journal article papers, Curriculum development, helping with students who are applying for graduate school in the U.S., etc.

Just breathe, grade and breathe!  Laughing - it is really quite fun, seeing what the students do and do not learn well!