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How did you cope with mid-Autumn break?
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Non Sequitur



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 8:49 pm    Post subject: How did you cope with mid-Autumn break? Reply with quote
If you were required to transfer classes to weekends, how did you cope?
I'm particularly interested in how much notice you go from the Teaching Affairs Dept.
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The_Kong



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:01 pm    Post subject: Re: How did you cope with mid-Autumn break? Reply with quote
Non Sequitur wrote:
If you were required to transfer classes to weekends, how did you cope?
I'm particularly interested in how much notice you go from the Teaching Affairs Dept.


Nobody I know had to make up the day since the holiday was Monday.

We just had a 3 day week-end.
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Capt Lugwash



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Our year only started today.
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MozartFloyd



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
3 day weekend to eat moon cake. Shocked
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Non Sequitur



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
MozartFloyd wrote:
3 day weekend to eat moon cake. Shocked


Don't ya just love it when you get the egg in the middle!
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wangdaning



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Non Sequitur wrote:
MozartFloyd wrote:
3 day weekend to eat moon cake. Shocked


Don't ya just love it when you get the egg in the middle!


Refuse to eat them. You sure that was egg in the middle?
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MozartFloyd



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The egg is weird!

The weirdest is the chocolate covered one with beef inside. I mean, how did they take two wonderful foods and turn them into sludge?
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Non Sequitur



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I accept the gifts of mooncakes with great grace and assure the giver that I will eat at leisure at home.
Beef inside chocolate - now that a new one!
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Markness



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 5:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Can't go wrong with some of those delicious inventions. As for 3 day "holidays"... heh... "you have to come in on your weekend to make up for those holidays..", "oh, thanks! sounds amazing!"
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Non Sequitur



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 12:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well the two approaches to Mid Autumn are:
1. Don't start the semester until after the holiday.
2. Ignore it by taking a long weekend.
The National Day holiday next month, should create some interesting class displacements and make-ups.
Newbes should have the Chinese holiday calendar displayed somewhere and anticipate class disruptions with late announcements being the norm.
Here's the link:
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?country=41
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litterascriptor



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 12:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I ate a few too many mooncakes on monday and just this morning dropped a deposit that sounded like a cinderblock hitting concrete after being thrown off a 50 story building.

Moral of the story, don't eat too many mooncakes.
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Markness



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 4:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
litterascriptor wrote:
I ate a few too many mooncakes on monday and just this morning dropped a deposit that sounded like a cinderblock hitting concrete after being thrown off a 50 story building.

Moral of the story, don't eat too many mooncakes.


Haha! You need to eat more of the local food such as spicy noodles or hot pot to counter-act the cinderblock-like bowel movements. I have the problem of my morning dumps sounding like a panzer canon shot going off, seldomly they are solid Sad Maybe I need to eat more mooncake...
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