2005-04-28 - 2:56 p.m.
lots to talk about. lets see. Teaching is really fun, and I like my class a LOT. I must admit I got this job by nepotism (isn't it wonderful!!!)
I don't know if I explained how I got my job, but I will do so again if I have.
I'm on the airplane coming to china with criss and the kids. Now I came to china with my wife to be a tourist, babysitter, and housecleaner (ours). My wife was hired at an incredible salary to teach composition. In the week before we came, my wife had to go to Fort Hayes Kansas to do her orientation.
She met a very nice woman there who is a fellow professor who was coming to SIAS. So they hit it off. During this week, (apparenlty) criss could not stop talking about me (how wonderful I am, how smart, funny, etc...) and this friend got to know me. She was also supposed to teach American Cinema for Fort Hayes. (they wanted her to teach 4 classes of composition, and then teach 3 classes of Cinma on top of it). The professor for cinema was also going to china. So the friend tells the professor about me at a Cooperative Teacher.
I'm sitting in the 747 next to the kids while people are loading. The friend is walking down the isle to her seat with the professor in the section behind us, when the professor goes "So you are Billy! I need a Cooperative Teacher for cinema, and I hear that you will be perfect, I ..... ... " (because she is still walking to her seat, so i can't hear her anymore.)
Cooperative teacher for cinema? American Cinema? You want me to teach Culture through movies? I can do that! I love that idea. So that is how I got the job. I got it because my wife is friends with someone who didn't want extra class hours, who knew the professor, who heard about me, and thought i was great. I's gots a reputation!
I must be doing things right. According to our liason between Fort Hayes and all 3 of their schools in china, I'm the in the top 2 CT's in china. That and a dollar will get me a soda (but it does bring a smile to my face).
More news.
Criss and Rita (the friend) will be going to beijing (bay j (hard j sound) ing) for a week over may holiday, leaving this afternoon, and coming back on next saturday (we hope, they don't have a return ticket yet, and won't get one until they get to beijing).
We are hiring 3 to 5 chinese students as tutors for the kids. We have the calvert home schooling stuff, but never have the time to get it all done. So we will hire tutors who have good english skills to get the time, and to focus the kids on their school work. Thank goodness we are in china, because we can afford it here.
Summer plans. we will stay here until the last week of july, and then go back to the states for about 3 weeks to a month. why? There is a summer session of intensive english, and I want to work it (they will give a months salary, and one free round trip ticket to the west coast for christmas break. Take that free round trip ticket, land in LAX, get on the train, and the next day I'm in flagstaff
Will
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