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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
My being awake is not insomniac. My legs don’t feel restless,
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
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. JosemarÃa 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.
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.
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.
How I wish I could go on tangents every class. Following a curriculum is boring!
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.
Extended my Duolingo and Hallow streaks to 1543 & 46 days respectively.
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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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.
One period and grading in the afternoon.
Lunch: day old donuts, coffee, bread & butter, and crackers.
Finish watching Se7en with one group this afternoon.
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,
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)
Back from the Jiangyin Micromarathon. Took lots of photos and videos, all of which to be published later.
I got to be up very early tomorrow. I volunteered for the Jiangyin Half Marathon.