Its been a long hard road!
Currently, we have only about 6 weeks of instruction left in the semester. Add to that one week of finals, and one week of extra activities, and we are done soon!
I have been given a gift of 8 extra classes, courtesy of a teacher who left abruptly. Leaving China can be as difficult as entering China, so some teachers who cannot hack it (or want to leave early because their contract was not renewed for the next year) leave suddenly and without telling anyone.
Leaving suddenly can get you prohibited from working in China again and having to leave a bunch of stuff, not to mention generating a bad reference and wasting 2 years of teaching.
This particular teacher's contract was not renewed, and he left over the weekend. Some of us subbed for him Monday and Tuesday, and Wednesday it was made official: he has left the country. So, we have his classes now. Sigh, this a a lot of work. But, the 8th and 9th grade ICT classes are pretty good, and I had them last semester so we can just continue what we were working on.
Here is a link to some pictures I have taken around Yew Wah.
Around Yew Wah
Around our Apartment
Enjoy!
