As of October 2011 I have been working at UM-SJTU JI as a marketing
consultant; in February my responsibilities increased and I began
teaching a writing course as well. I have two classes, one is comprised of 40
Freshman and the other has 40 Sophomores. It's tough, I grade 80
papers a week, each class meets three times a week for a total of 9
hours of class time. I have to be available to the students so I have four
office hours weekly and I must prepare the lessons, which takes me about
9 hours a week as I have to relearn/learn all the rules for writing.
Tough, tough, tough!
This day was very exciting as a cat wandered into the classroom and was sniffing out the kids breakfasts begging for a bite. My student, Martin, accidentally stepped on the cat's tail and the cat let out a loud squeal and raced out. I was in the process of taking a picture of the cat begging for bites of food but instead caught him mid-flight.
You can see how dreary the sky is, we have had 32 days of rain and cold weather!
The school is right next to the nuclear power plant. China loves
nuclear energy and you see quite a lot of these cooling towers around
China.
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