Well we are on to the last week of the intensive session. I wish I could say that the coming months were going to get better, but I have yet to see any evidence of that. Quite to the contrary, we just found out that another one of the foreign teachers is going to be leaving at the end of the month, which puts us at a teacher short for the normal schedule. Which means that I'm still teaching about 30 classes, but without any chance of getting overtime. Oh goodie....
All complaining aside, I have rediscovered the wonder that is the Daily Show. My three years at GW had already given me a somewhat healthy obsession with Jon Stewart, but when I remembered that Comedy Central is practically the only network that streams programs online that are not restricted by international copyright laws, I did a little dance of happiness. In the middle of the teacher's office. While my coworkers sat and wondered silently to themselves why the new teacher had already lost her mind. Whoops. I've been catching up on all the recent "news" over the past couple hours, since the Daily Show is easy to fit in around breaks of grading student journals and essays and the like. And since we are nearing the end of the month, I have plenty that I should be doing. Don't worry--while my workload will be about the same, my schedule will have shifted towards the evenings, so I should be able to get back online and back in touch with most of you (something which I have sorely missed this past month).
All of you start looking forward to Lunar New Year! I'm trying to pull together some kind of interesting cultural experience for me to embark on...
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