The month of August was split between gallivanting around Australia and teaching reading courses upon getting back in Shanghai.
I want to write about the different Chinese people that you see abroad as I experienced a whole load when abroad.
But for now, we are back in the present and facing the reality that the summer is over. I go back to teaching to 40 odd students in each class the day after tomorrow and I feel a conflicting mix of dread and excitement. Dread as the summer work with small classes is a whole lot easier but teaching the big classes is a bit of an adrenaline rush.
Anyway the temperatures seem to have dropped recently from sweltering to coolish. We all enjoyed the sight of defined clouds in the clear blue sky yesterday.
I want to write about the different Chinese people that you see abroad as I experienced a whole load when abroad.
But for now, we are back in the present and facing the reality that the summer is over. I go back to teaching to 40 odd students in each class the day after tomorrow and I feel a conflicting mix of dread and excitement. Dread as the summer work with small classes is a whole lot easier but teaching the big classes is a bit of an adrenaline rush.
Anyway the temperatures seem to have dropped recently from sweltering to coolish. We all enjoyed the sight of defined clouds in the clear blue sky yesterday.
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Adverts
The advertising business in this very consumerist city must be huge. You have the Pudong skyline which acts basically as a grand advertisment for foreign investment. But then when it gets to the posters, there are really some adverts that defy belief. Here are 5 which stood out.
1. The 'in awe of quite a mundane product' advert
2. The ' completely un natural, you just don't see this' advert
3. The ' get a pretty lady and just flaunt it' advert
4. The 'will always be seen with a badminton racket in every advert' advert
5. The 'Oh dear what were you thinking' advert
Oh China.
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