September 29, 2006

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After One Month in Lin’an

Good afternoon Internet. Now that I have been here for one month, I can say with some certainty that I like it. First of all, the school, at least my department, is better than the school at which I taught previously. Here we, the foreign teachers, are made to feel a little more a part of the university. We are not completely segregated, nor left out of the loop. Though of course, we’re not completely a part of the university either. We’ll always be foreigners first, and teachers second in the minds of the Chinese. Maybe that will change some day.

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