As some of you may know I have been off line for more than 14 days. While somewhat liberating it has had it's challenges.
In a nut shell my hard drive crashed! 4000 pictures and 1000 documents all presumably lost. Fortunately I found an IT guy - from Sweden - who has a business here in Shanghai and he said he may be able to extract my data from the crashed drive. He of course asked: do you back up? With tears streaming down my face I whispered - no. Ah ha he replied, well I am sure that now you will and I will teach you! He then told me it may take 1,400 hours to get all the data back.
That's 58.3 days for those of you wondering. OMG!
Well it has only been 14 days and I have all my pictures and documents. IT guy is a miracle worker!
It was a challenge doing without my computer, especially teaching, as all my material is located on the drive, but I managed. Can you say DVD babysitter. Yes that's right, 23 year old students, in the masters program at Donghua University enjoyed watching episodes of Friends and then discussing the differences between American Culture and Chinese Culture.
Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Great to be back!
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