Separate but equal
As part of my  lesson plan to teach American culture and history, this week I started teaching the Declaration of Independence to my high school kids. Apparently I couldn’t have timed things worse–after some prompting, my students informed me that this weekend one of the papers ran an entire ad-free issue entitled something like “American […]
Sometimes kids don’t get it
I hope everyone has a great Valentine’s Day. I spent it with my students teaching them how to make paper hearts and making pig hats (see photo–the coming lunar year is the Year of the Pig). We decided to make the paper hearts into valentines for our mothers, so I had them copy “Happy Valentine’s […]
Chinese internet outage: no news would be great news
The International Herald Tribune broke the news a couple of days ago that the [tag]cable repairs[/tag] are going to take even longer than initially expected.
China internet update
We’ve had little to no internet in China since the end of December…you can expect some updates in the next couple of weeks once things are running faster. Internet services will not be fully restored until end January (Xinhua) Updated: 2007-01-12 14:42 Full internet services — disrupted by an earthquake off Taiwan at the end of […]