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Posted on 16/01/2007 by haonowshaokao

I’ve finished teaching kids, possibly forever. On Sunday I “taught” six last classes, each one involving a couple of games and a protracted awards ceremony. For the last half hour of each class the parents were allowed into the classroom. … Continue reading →

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Guangzhou

Posted on 12/01/2007 by haonowshaokao

Tuesday I went up to Guangzhou (Canton), with John and also Zack, a friend of his from the UK. With about 12 million people it’s an immensely huge city, bigger than Shenzhen, twice the size of little London and ten … Continue reading →

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Posted on 11/01/2007 by haonowshaokao

New year, new influenza. The first week of the new year has seen the greater part of the foreign teaching staff bed-ridden with assorted Chinese variations of the winter flu. My turn came in the middle of last week, though … Continue reading →

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2006

Posted on 31/12/2006 by haonowshaokao

There was an earthquake in Taiwan on Tuesday, which severed undersea fiber-optic cables, cutting China off from the internet. Only East-Asian web pages were available, not a huge problem if you can read Chinese, but a major annoyance for anyone … Continue reading →

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Christmas in China.

Posted on 25/12/2006 by haonowshaokao

Everyone knows there is no Christmas in China, but walking around my neighbourhood would give everyone and anyone a completely different impression. Here, for example, is a street just round the corner: This isn’t some freak anomaly either. The city … Continue reading →

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Tour of the neighbourhood.

Posted on 21/12/2006 by haonowshaokao

With two months left here it’s occurred to me that I’ve never put up any photos of the local area. Well, that’s about to change. Let’s start with the building I live in. Here is the bottom of it. There … Continue reading →

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Predicatable “First sentence of each month” mene

Posted on 21/12/2006 by haonowshaokao

January – Goodbye and good riddance to 2005, a genuinely rubbish year all round. February – Monday was “last night” for Amanda and Miriam. March – It seems that I have somehow become a primary (grade) school teacher. April – … Continue reading →

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Photos from Shenzhen

Posted on 13/12/2006 by haonowshaokao

I’m putting these in a seperate entry to avoid having to use two lj-cuts. Here is a strange buiding that has a horse sticking out of it.

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Posted on 13/12/2006 by haonowshaokao

With the end of the last week-off of the year approaching with considerable speed, I decided last Thursday to seize the moment and catch the ferry to Shenzhen with Brandy. The journey itself was without problem or major incident, though … Continue reading →

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Posted on 06/12/2006 by haonowshaokao

I have most of this week off so have been taking the opportunity to do some of the things I hadn’t got around to in October and November. Yesterday I went down to Macau again with two other teachers – … Continue reading →

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