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Tag Archives: Sven
Working Hard In The Teachers’ Office!
Model posing with Carol and Grace! Sven shows us blue steel. He has a lot of modeling experience. A rare photo of everyone at work. (Staged, of course) Tweet this!
Posted in teaching ESL, teaching teenagers
Tagged e3, Grace, Sven, teaching ESL, teaching teenagers, Yuyu
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Goodbye Foreigners!
Cup of Cha‘s post called Goodbye Foreign Visitors describes my feelings on the new visa regulations, only more eloquently than I’d put it. This week involved saying goodbye to expat friends, Sven from Tennessee and Christina both left on Saturday. … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese life
Tagged changes in Beijing, China, Christina, Eric, expats, mac, moving, other blogs, reading, Stick, Sven, teaching
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One-Way Street
Yesterday, we went up to Wudaokou to visit Sven. Wudaokou is a cool college-town area in northwest of the city, Propaganda is down the street, and a Pizza Hut, and an English bookstore. Our favorite Indian restaurant, Ganges, is just … Continue reading
Posted in Beijing, Chinese life, Fengtai, Yantai
Tagged Books, coffee, garden, Haidian, Harry Potter, Stick, Sven, Wudaokou, Yantai
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My English Name Is Voldemort
Thanks to Sven (who does not foster age-inappropriate crushes) for the title. I asked one of my classes to write about their Chinese names. What’s your Chinese name? Who choose your name? What does it mean? Are you named after … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese life
Tagged China, chinese, Eric, LCC, my students, Stick, Sven, teaching ESL
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Office Adventures
In the office the other day… Sven: I’m off to class to have mad fun with our apathetic teenagers! Carol: Good job! Did you learn that word from David? Sven: What? Meg: He said “mad fun” not “ma fan“. (Chinese … Continue reading
Posted in teaching teenagers
Tagged chinese, mail, Sven, teaching teenagers, World of WarCraft, WoW
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Yanjing
My specs had a tragic accident today. After Sven helped me out at school with a superglue temporary fix, I went to the specs store to get new ones. We get Stick’s contact lens solution at a little glasses shop … Continue reading
I work with two other Americans, Sven From Tennessee and David The Teen Idol (the students love him). We were in the teachers’ office today, enjoying the pleasures of full-speed English, when David The Teen Idol mentioned he was on … Continue reading
Sven The Monkey
The real reason for YouTube’s inaccessibility doesn’t have anything to do with that place with the mountains, it’s actually due to this video of my new co-teacher Sven impersonating a monkey. Subscribe to Violet Eclipse by Email Tweet this!
