A tour around the place
John Norman, an Australian going on his 3rd year here as a foreign teacher, gave us a tour of the university today. Wow, it's big. Many of you might have read about it on the website we sent via our first email. If not, take a gander at www.zist.edu.cn/english/about.htm.
John is a retired teacher and principal. He spent a lot of time with us and took us to the important buildings like the administration building and the building where our teacher's office is located. We also met the head liaison, Oliver, who gave us our class schedules. More on that down the road. Anyway, in 102 degree heat we walked about 2 1/2 hours, and then he showed us a hip restaurant that has its menu in Chinese and English with dishes like omelets, spaghetti, different sandwiches, curry chicken, and all sorts of Western items. This place also shows films on the wall and plays American music. It’s close to the university so we might end up back there for lunch.
Our class schedules to date make Michael a very busy guy. He’s slated to teach English Majors, students in Public Administration and International Trade. With 16 periods a week his day off is Tuesday but his busy day is really Friday. Bummer! We were hoping to get either Mondays or Fridays off to make long weekends of it.
Cindy’s class schedule has really not been sorted out yet. We only know that she is teaching post grads and starts a week after Michael does. By Saturday this should be all sorted out. We have our first staff meeting on Saturday.
Then John walked us down to what he called the open market. Another 2 hour walk. It’s a series of streets with many different shops like DVDs, fresh veggies, restaurants, flowers and bicycles. This is where Cindy purchased her sissy pink older looking but new one speed bike. The school reimburses us 200 RMB (Chinese money) and that’s exactly how much this bike with basket, book rack and lock cost. Why hot pink you ask? Well, who’s going to steal a sissy hot pink bicycle?
Michael wants to look around a bit for a sturdier bike for himself. Preferably one that has Harley Davidson written on the gas tank
As for dinner we got together with the foreign teachers (FT) again. It is Molly’s birthday today (22) and the school purchased a cake in her honor. It was a nice meal at the same hotel we’ve been to three times before with the seasoned FTs. Guess they prefer it to others.
John is a retired teacher and principal. He spent a lot of time with us and took us to the important buildings like the administration building and the building where our teacher's office is located. We also met the head liaison, Oliver, who gave us our class schedules. More on that down the road. Anyway, in 102 degree heat we walked about 2 1/2 hours, and then he showed us a hip restaurant that has its menu in Chinese and English with dishes like omelets, spaghetti, different sandwiches, curry chicken, and all sorts of Western items. This place also shows films on the wall and plays American music. It’s close to the university so we might end up back there for lunch.
Our class schedules to date make Michael a very busy guy. He’s slated to teach English Majors, students in Public Administration and International Trade. With 16 periods a week his day off is Tuesday but his busy day is really Friday. Bummer! We were hoping to get either Mondays or Fridays off to make long weekends of it.
Cindy’s class schedule has really not been sorted out yet. We only know that she is teaching post grads and starts a week after Michael does. By Saturday this should be all sorted out. We have our first staff meeting on Saturday.
Then John walked us down to what he called the open market. Another 2 hour walk. It’s a series of streets with many different shops like DVDs, fresh veggies, restaurants, flowers and bicycles. This is where Cindy purchased her sissy pink older looking but new one speed bike. The school reimburses us 200 RMB (Chinese money) and that’s exactly how much this bike with basket, book rack and lock cost. Why hot pink you ask? Well, who’s going to steal a sissy hot pink bicycle?
Michael wants to look around a bit for a sturdier bike for himself. Preferably one that has Harley Davidson written on the gas tank
As for dinner we got together with the foreign teachers (FT) again. It is Molly’s birthday today (22) and the school purchased a cake in her honor. It was a nice meal at the same hotel we’ve been to three times before with the seasoned FTs. Guess they prefer it to others.
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