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kev7161
Joined: 06 Feb 2004
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Location: Suzhou, China
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 Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:00 am Post subject: God bless sports meets! |
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After being dismayed about having to come back to school last SUNDAY and teaching a 6 day week, I am delighted to say that today (Thursday) and tomorrow, our school is having their annual sports meet. That means I had to go in this morning and march around the field with my kids, bade them good-bye, went to my classroom to catch up on a few things, and now I'm off for almost 4 glorious days! Thank you school for doing this - - if you can have another in May sometime to offset the May Day holiday rigamarole, I'd really appreciate it!  |
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Shan-Shan
Joined: 28 Aug 2003
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Location: electric pastures
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:17 am Post subject: |
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One of my happiest moments at the mill last year.
I came to an empty class. After waiting a few minutes thinking that the vacant chairs may be some kind of test, I finally gave the FAO a call.
"Where is everyone?"
"Oh, sorry. There's sports meet today"
Graduate students forced to compete in a sports meet: a ludicrous scenario, but I didn't complain. |
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Laoshi1950
Joined: 22 May 2004
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Location: Australia
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:38 am Post subject: |
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| I am enjoying a 4-day break too, Kev! But, it is not because of sports. Our college Freshmen students started their delayed army training yesterday, for two weeks. I still have Sophomore classes to teach, but I do not see them again until Monday morning. The two days free-of-classes for our campus Sports Meet will be scheduled in November sometime. As 'this is China', no one can tell me yet when those actual days will be! |
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7969
Joined: 26 Mar 2003
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Location: Coastal Guangdong
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:47 am Post subject: |
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| i enjoy a 4 and a half day break every week, starting at 11:30 on thursday morning. go back to work on tuesday at 7:50. |
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Steppenwolf
Joined: 30 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| Happy Kev - unhappy students doing their sports with less enthusiasm than they do their homework... |
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Itsme
Joined: 11 Aug 2004
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Location: Houston, TX
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:19 am Post subject: |
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| So you will probably now have to have classes at 6 am for 3 consecutive weekends to make up for the days missed. |
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