Even though some of you may read this on Friday evening, it’s already Saturday morning here. Our first week of classes has already ended. That’s just amazing! The time is flying by! We all are enjoying our classes, and the students seem genuinely interested, for the most part. I learned from the parent of one [...]

Thursday afternoon friends we met last summer came to visit with us for a while. They are husband and wife and both are former English teachers; therefore our conversations were easy and lively. We had a great time of sharing and of deepening our friendships. In the course of talking to these friends, we told [...]

In some parts of the USA, the “dog days” of summer have arrived with lots of heat. What I’m sending you today was actually written about Texas, but it could easily apply to other places in the northern hemisphere including, for us, the island of Hainan where we are teaching this month. Even though the [...]

Flying is such an interesting and unpredictable experience! We heard all sorts of inanities over loud speakers, and much of it sounded as if the person making the announcements was none other than Charlie Brown’s teacher! Wa-wa-wa…. Anyway, here are a few things you would *not* want to hear on a plane.
Things you don’t want [...]

Greetings from Asia!
We arrived safely in Beijing, 8 hours later than scheduled, but we were happy to be here. We had only a couple of hours Friday morning to explore near our hotel, so we did the 10 minute walk to Tiananmen Square. In spite of the intense heat, we strolled part way up the [...]