http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/ discuss *life* teaching English in China Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:25:16 GMT Terence http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25117 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25117 It makes interesting reading to compare his excited statement upon leaving Microsoft to join Google and his recent statement about being the 'wrong fit' at Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:21:53 GMT alan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25116 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25116 Yushu, SE Qinghai province. Dave, please enlarge on life in such an out of the way place. It's a tiny town on my map & not mentioned in my guide books. Daily Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:21:35 GMT Terence http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25115 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25115 Access to Google Blogger was closed down many months ago. Access to some photo sites was closed in early 2008 (or maybe before). Is anyone having trouble Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:20:57 GMT Terence http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25114 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25114 How much credence do universities give to students' personal statements? I'm constantly providing references and filling out other universities'online forms. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:19:47 GMT Terence http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25113 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25113 So much for his guanxi. It's always amusing to hear foreigners talk about how they are building guanxi. I bought a nice apartment and renovated in central Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:18:52 GMT Terence http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25112 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25112 That's true (babies and diapers) for some Chinese Margaret. Others don't seem to have heard about it (the diversity of China again). My wife had our daughter Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:38:40 GMT karenstanleyma http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25111 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25111 Those of us who can't buy $300,000 apartments in Dalian and then do a $60,000 renovation won't ever get this result, but I thought the story might be Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:46:25 GMT Margaret Orleans http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25110 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25110 ... Interesting. This throws some light on a child-rearing experience I had in China. Friends told us that diapers are unnecessary because babies make certain Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:46:17 GMT Dave http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25109 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25109 ... Good question :-) Yushu, SE Qinghai province. an ETP program at a vocational school, to get kids past Gaokao English in 3 years. There's other ETP programs Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:21:36 GMT karenstanleyma http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25108 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25108 I thought of the discussion on this list about young children exposed to multiple languages when I listened to a National Public Radio (US) clip that shows Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:22:23 GMT Bishop Johnson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25107 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25107 I downloaded ExpressVPN here in China. It costs $12.95 per month, or $69.95 for 6 months. Great thing is they give you a U. S. I.P. address, so you can see Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:38:41 GMT Don williamson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25106 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25106 Ha,ha...you're right but back in June a seminar I was to attend got canceled because the two U.S. guest professors arriving from the U.S. were on a plane Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:34:41 GMT tanyujie http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25105 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25105 Aloha, A question for all those who have Facebook (FB)and are in China. I see that several of my FB buddies both Chinese and expats are back on -- or at Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:28:47 GMT alan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25104 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25104 Don, you should know it's all good news reported in China. Alan Simpson Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:39:05 GMT alan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25103 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEFLChinaLife/message/25103 Where are you Dave? Alan Simpson ... Dave said: A month after school started, a vocational school a long way from most places, new technology appeared in the