Category: team life
Updated on August 2, 2011
Sunday snapshot: Week of Lasts
This week has been all about “lasts.” Last time giving finals. Last time using the trench squatty potty in the teaching building (too much information?). Last visit to KFC. Last time bargaining with stubborn taxi drivers. Last time… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
The Fourth Annual Spelling Bee
For the past four years, the freshmen spoken English teachers have held a spelling bee for their students. The students compete in class, and then the top two spellers from each class advance to the big stage. I… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
Sunday Snapshot: Picnic at the Park
What is one to do when move across the ocean is imminent? When the to do list stretches a mile long? When there is six years’ worth of things to be sorted and trashed and given away and packed… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
The man with the big camera
We rarely get a picture of our entire team together. First of all, there’s a lot of us. Second of all, when we’re all together, there’s usually not anyone else around to take our picture. Thirdly, it’s just… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
Sunday Snapshot: Team Retreat {Harbin}
In the past six years living in Asia, I’ve had the opportunity to do many things I had never imagined myself doing. Riding elephants. Bunking with four people in a tiny one person steward’s cabin on an overnight… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
Celebrations
About four years ago, the team was at a swanky karaoke bar in town Seth’s birthday when we received the call that Samantha had arrived just in time to share the day with her “creepy uncle.” Recently, we… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
The guy on the computer screen
How do you send flowers to your girlfriend who lives thousands of miles away in a country with no flower delivery companies? You enlist the help of said girl’s teammates and send them off to the local flower… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
Saturday morning recipe
The following is my recipe for the perfect Saturday morning: 1) Some girlfriends you love dearly {even better if one of those ladies is an unfortunately rarely seen out-of-towner}. {Fair warning…not all take too kindly to being photographed early… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
Sunday Snapshot: A very merry Christmas
This past week has been packed full of Christmas activities. The end of the semester is upon me, I leave for America in five days, and my to do list is about a mile long. Consequently, I thought… Read More
Updated on August 2, 2011
Sunday Snapshot: Lookin’ like Christmas
Living in China, there aren’t nearly as many daily reminders of the Christmas season. While Christmas trees and Santas are now quite common in China, you’re just as likely to see such things in July as in December…. Read More
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