4:04 PM View

 

Back in Jinglr Jangles.

The car is still held by me.  Drove back I did, with Tony.

Before getting back to the fifth floor, we went to the area around a nearby pagoda park to locate it for when we go hike it, perhaps during the upcoming May holiday.

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Soon be driving back to Jingle Jangles.

Sights in Wuxi.  We, that be my son Tony & I, did some walking while we’re in Whiskers.  Here’s some of the sights and observations I had:

‘The wet market on the doorstep.’  A grocery store had this sign The term ‘wet market’ has ominous connotations for Westerners because of the story told that the Covid virus had originated in a wet market in Wuhan.  

Kids playing keep away with a basketball.

Walking along a street full of life and energy.  So many restaurants and shops.  I wondered where they got all the people to work in them; I wondered about the individual circumstances of the workers.

A big piece of cow meat dangling from a hook at the front of a barbecue shop.  The locals find such a sight mouth-watering?

All restaurant workers have to wear Covid era masks.

Good looking women walking unaccompanied.

Later walking in the dark near an empty lot.  Where did all the people go?

7:38 AM View

 

I’m up now.

Didn’t sleep well.

4:44 AM View

 This is not so much a getting up view as a middle of the night view.

6:18 PM View

 Now in Wuxi.

Would have published the view five minutes earlier but I had to take a poo.

4:09 PM View

 TGIF!

Off to Whiskers, aka Wooshe.

11:59 AM View

 Lunchtime! I did takeout from a Lanzhou noodle place.

5:24 AM View

 Wow!  24 hours exactly, I took a morning view photo.  However, today, I arose fifteen minutes later than yesterday.

8:22 PM View

 This is the view as I wait for my son Tony to come home from school so I can grill him about economics.  

I was looking at a sample chemistry exam that Tony will have to take on May 3, and I have to admit that I was out of my depth.  Not having taken Chemistry or read anything about the subject since 1982, I going to have to hope Tony can explain it to me.

Jets and Celtics both lost their game twos thus negating their home advantages.

4:38 PM View

 No noonday view.  I had lunch at the school mess hall.

I’m fit to be tied.  That’s what I’m thinking now that the day is over.  What happened ?  I will reveal all in a bestselling tell-all book.  ‘Really ?’ you ask.  Ahhh.  I could just be saying.

I have the car.  I want to drive it somewhere but I’m stumped as to where to drive.  I guess I’ll stay in the apartment tonight.

5:24 AM View

 I ‘awoke’ about five minutes later than normal,

I’ll have an easier day than yesterday: just three classes.

But I’ll have to bone upon physics and chemistry and math to help Tony.

1:51 AM View

 I happen to be awake at this time and I have decided to take a photo.  The light between the towers is unusual.

My being awake is not insomniac.  My legs don’t feel restless,

4:40 PM View

 Bugger!  I forgot to take a view photo when I went to the Jiangyin apartment for lunch!

Not that I had anything to say other than I was getting through my day.

I’m more through my day now.  

Or was I threwing my day away?

5;16 AM View

 

It my busiest day of the week in terms of classes

Will start a new book — purple in color — with the ESLers.

It ain’t going to be easy to get 4F boy to pass his tests but I’ll try.

5:34 PM View

 Didn’t go home for lunch today.

Finished showing the film Breakfast Club to some of my students.  A lot of them liked it.  Some of the students whom I showed part of the film to, went home and watched the whole thing on their own  What appealed to them about it?  It was different, I suppose.  I thought the movie had an unrealistic ending.

5:21 AM View

 Didn’t get up as early as I would have liked.  And I made my coffee cold.  Not a good way to start the day.

5:53 PM View

 OMG!  Do you see the Chem Trail?  I am not sure what’s the deal with CTs, so I am not sure what my emotions should be.

Do I look like Charles Manson?  I don’t think so, but to those who do, I’ll get the family after yous.  You bunch of TDS Covidian Trudeau Biden lovers!

12:16 PM View

 Had lunch.  Ate an apple, blueberries and milk, cup of noodles and a pack of crackers.  Yum yum yum.  Also drank a cup of Joe.

5:17 AM View

 Monday.  Forecast: cloudy.

I’ve just extended my Duolingo and Hallow streaks: 1548 & 51 respectively.  I’ve also done my daily reading on my iPhone.

Once the morning is done, I will be happy.

6:11 PM View

 Jesus, it is hard to grade the writing of the students.  It is generally so bad that one does not know where to begin to correct it.

Busy day:  trying to get Tony to improve his economics grade isn’t going to be easy.  He seems baffled by it.

Here are my current reading interests:

Universalis App Daily Reading including the Catholic and Conversion by GK Chesterton.

The Catholic Thing App

A Chesterton Calendar

The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce 

( i guess you could say I have the reading habits of a deplurabel)

The Way by St. Josemaría Escrivá

Œuvres traduites Scholies  pars Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Nicolás Gómez Dávila aphorisms

Praying with Mother Angelica

Poems every child should know

Prayers in Practice by Romano Guardini

Childhood’s End by Arthur C, Clarke 

Earth Abides by George Rippey Stewart

Soviet - American Relations 1917 - 1920 Russia Leaves the World by George F. Kennan

Scholia to an Implicit Text by Nicolás Gómez-Dávila

I persist in reading this much, despite my school workload.

12:43 PM View

 Sunday afternoon:  work, work, work.  I got to help my son and I got my own school work to get done.

7:35 AM View

 Went to sleep late so I got up late this Sunday.

I have extended my Duolingo streak to 1547 days.  I want to report that I have extended my Hallow streak to 50 but the App, for some reason (not true faithfulness on my part), won’t acknowledge this.

I need to met or communicate with a Christian.

Yesterday, Tony thought it was amusing to tell me that it was Hitler’s birthday.

8:43 PM View

 

We got the car!  So we drove from Whiskers to Jingle Jangles.

7:16 PM View

 Now, it’s back to Jingle Jangles.

11:59 AM

 Just in case I die soon, here’s what I looked like.

11:14 AM View

 I’m in Whiskers now.  Ha ha.

5:45 AM View

 Saturday morning.  I’m up early so I can relax before getting ready to go to Wuxi.

I’m extended my Duolingo streak to 1546 days.  I’ve done 36 lessons of a 70 lesson partner quest on Duo as well.  The partner has done 29.

I’ll extend my Hallow streak after publishing this entry.

The Trump trial is a sick joke.  It is clearly the government persecuting a political opponent.  Anyone who supports this ought to be ashamed of themselves.

4:53 PM View

Just in time for the weekend, a wind and rain storm looks to be coming.  Here’s the video to prove it.

 

 

12:04 PM View

 Dumb son of mine!  His report had four Fs on it and a C in the one subject he is supposed to be good at,  I got to take action!

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Overcast.

All I know now is that it’s Friday and I’m tired.

4:45 PM View

It’s a lovely day!  And a busy day!  

The video shows the loveliness,

5:13 AM View

 

Is it going to be a lovely day?

4:17 PM View

 When I started doing this view thang, I would just post a photo.  I later decided to post some thoughts, words as it were, with the photo.  So I then felt honor-bound whenever I took a view photo to add some words below the photo as soon as I took the photo.  That is, I would still publish the photo ASAP.  The last two days, I have done something different.  I have taken the photo but given myself more time to think about what I want to say before i publish the photo.

How I wish I could go on tangents every class.  Following a curriculum is boring!

11:58 AM View

 I asked the students to tell me what things they wish were never invented.  They gave some answers that got me thinking.

One student said alarm clock.  It got me to thinking of a Chinese emperor being shown a clock by European visitors.  The emperor was said to have been wary of the invention.  I wrote “slave to the clock” on the board and one student agreed with me absolutely.

Another student wished homework had never been invented and another said exams.  I asked the students if it was perhaps the Chinese who had invented the exam with the creation of the process of civil servant selection.  The students all said no… It had to be the Europeans.

4:54 AM View

 Mixing up the routine this morning; doing the view earlier.

Extended my Duolingo and Hallow streaks to 1543 & 46 days respectively.

4:49 PM View

 This is the view after returning home from my afternoon at school.

I listened to a podcast where a controversial pastor — i.e. one the progs don’t like — said that the Christian answer to the question of the one or the many, liberty or form/structure is Yes.  To me it is a recognition of the paradox of existence that Chesterton liked to write about.  We must strive to make the world better but never expect it to be utopia.  We are all sinners.

The students were surprised by the ending of Se7en.  Good.  I’m glad I thought to show it.

I forgot to mention this happening:  as I was to the deluxe restaurant after volunteering at the marathon, an older local gentleman came up to me to shake my hand.  He had run in the race and saw me volunteering.  It’s nice to be recognized.

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12:53 PM View

 This was the view after i had finished lunch and just before I left to go back to work in the afternoon,

5:18 AM View

 Speaking Tesr morning.

I’ve taken a video where you can hear birds chirping.

I’ve extended my Duo and Hallow streaks to 1542 days and 45 days respectively.

Never give the progressives moral high ground.  Everything they do makes the problems they purport to solve worse.  Why is it they persist in their folly?

So tempting to tell the students to self study. I’m just running out the clock  at this point.

4:52 PM View

 A three view day in the AKIC Blogspot blog — unless I do an evening view which would mean a four view day.

I am not sure if you can see from the view above but it is a pleasant day in JJPRC,  I can’t detect a feeling of oppression in the air like someone in a podcast I listened to recently said there was.

Any ideas to discuss?  I ask this of myself because I read somewhere that it is better to talk about ideas than it is to talk of oneself.  So, let’s see. What ideas do I have in my head today?  Sometimes, you have to scream angrily or else, you have to deal with complete disorder.  It would be nice if this angrily screaming was for effect and not because you were really angry.  But one has a right to be angry and express it.

12:04 PM View

 Four periods in the morning.

One period and grading in the afternoon.

Lunch: day old donuts, coffee, bread & butter, and crackers.

Finish watching Se7en with one group this afternoon.

5:16 AM View

 Monday morning sky.

Still don’t have set plans for classes.

I see I have bad posture.  Photos of me at the half marathon…

Need to stand straight.

My mother’s 86th birthday yesterday.

Extended my Hallow and Duolingo streaks to 44 and 1541 days respectively,

5:41 PM View

Volunteering at the Jiangyin Half Marathon was a lot of fun.  Our task was to give water to the runners; and scream encouraging words at them.  A lot of the runners were pleased to see this bearded foreigner doing so.  One runner stopped to take a selfie with me.  A lot of runners said ‘thank you’ to me which was surely a record for me — the record being amount of gratitude received in an interim of time by yours truly.  

To get to the course of the micro marathon, I had to leave the apartment at 5:30 AM.  There was confusion getting to the exact location but we got to our station and waited for two hours for the runners to come.  

To while away that time, I wandered around the nearby park, read books on my iPhone, and chatted with the other volunteers.  The park, located near the freeway going to the Jiangyin Big Bridge, was well maintained and had a lot of interesting fixtures like slides and parking spots below the freeway.  I read some Romano Guardini and was cagey when a local asked me what I was reading.  I talked to an Italian who had an electric car.  He told me he loved the car and found recharging convenient; but this was because, he said, China could support the infrastructure for it. He didn’t think it was a good idea for Canada and the USA because they didn’t have the population density and it was too cold in Canada as well.

We ended the volunteering with a nice meal at a swanky local restaurant.  What got my attention, about the building that the restaurant was in, was the dress of its doormen and parking attendants:  they looked like military general staff — their uniforms were so well done. (I took a video of them which you can see in the April 14th AKIC Daily Video)

Jiangyin Half Marathon Photos and Video

 

1:54 PM View

 

Back from the Jiangyin Micromarathon.  Took lots of photos  and videos, all of which to be published later.

5:09 AM View

Should be up this goddamn early for mass.  Instead, I’m volunteering at a half marathon.

Pictures and Daily Video sure to follow.

8:52 PM View

 We got back from a meal at the Steakhouse and a Saturday evening stroll in downtown JJ.

I got to be up very early tomorrow. I volunteered for the Jiangyin Half Marathon.