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Posted on 06/04/2006 by haonowshaokao

The climate here is wildly confusing for an English boy. Yesterday it was immensely humid and I left my window open to get some air into my room, then came back a few hours later to find mould all over … Continue reading →

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Posted on 04/04/2006 by haonowshaokao

Life in the new flat continues to be great. I will take a photo of the view of the Pearl River as soon as the smog over it clears up a bit. With three days to go until payday money … Continue reading →

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Posted on 31/03/2006 by haonowshaokao

I’ve been teaching an adult “business” class in the evenings and loving it. It’s like a little party where everyone has fun and I tell them all what to do and get paid for it. If I could do this … Continue reading →

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Posted on 28/03/2006 by haonowshaokao
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Posted on 26/03/2006 by haonowshaokao

The best thing about being so far away from the UK is that I don’t have to occupy my brain with the tiresome cultural phenomena that make up about 50% of the conversations I have there. While I was in … Continue reading →

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Posted on 24/03/2006 by haonowshaokao

On Tuesday I went to Macau with three other teachers. It’s an old Portuguese colony which forms the southern part of our urban conurbation. To get there I just have to catch a bus to the centre, fill in a … Continue reading →

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Middle School

Posted on 17/03/2006 by haonowshaokao

I got a call from my school last weekend telling me I had been given more hours. The four new classes were at the middle school on the other end of town and each had fifty students. It was an … Continue reading →

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Local celebrities

Posted on 16/03/2006 by haonowshaokao

I put on my suit last Tuesday and went on a cruise downriver with the rest of the staff. We were apparently celebrating “International Women’s Day” which meant we all had food and entertainment while we sailed around Macau. As … Continue reading →

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Also

Posted on 11/03/2006 by haonowshaokao

Check out this bizarre fundamentalist Christian pamphlet site. It’s somewhere between unintentionally hilarious and really fucking scary.

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Heartwarming tale of troubled youth

Posted on 11/03/2006 by haonowshaokao

Two weeks ago, when I had my first ever class here, I was warned by another teacher that I’d been given a collection of some of the worst behaved students in the school. She singled out a few in particular … Continue reading →

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