So far, over a hour of learning chemistry and grilling Tony about it, on the fly.
The never ending adventures of a Canadian who lives in Wuxi and Jiangyin, China with his Chinese wife Jenny and their son Anthony aka Tony
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
10:34 AM View
Open Day (Did I mention I was doing this, this morning?) is done.
Now, cooking breakfast for Anthony & myself.
Be nice to strangers insists the Bible and Liberals. But what does the Bible and Liberalism say about invaders? The Bible isn’t pacifist; Liberalism may or not be depending on concerns temporal or political, it would seem.
5:38 AM View
May Day morning.
Does it look like someone needs help?
Does it look like someone is working?
I do need to put on the heat this morning
I am doing two classes for our school’s open day. So I’ll be at NJHS from 8:00 to 11:00.
Then I got to give it the old college try with Tony. He’s got CIE paper 4 this Wednesday.
5:28 PM View
Suppertime view!
What’s for dinner? Scrambled eggs and some white beer.
Oh yes! And a banana!
Listening to Russell Brand and Colonel Douglas MacGregor on a podcast. So many podcasts and only so many hours in a day. Alas!
If the numbers are to be believed — I don’t believe them — I have had over 65,000 page views this month on this blog.
I have to go to Canada but I’m not looking forward to it.
I posted a video of the teachers at the Color Fiesta on WeChat. Some wisenhimer said I was the only white guy in the photo. I resented this because I had been thoroughly covered with color on my clothes.
The Jets are sucking in the playoffs so far. 5-1 and 5-2 losses on the road.
Monday, April 29, 2024
1:55 PM View
Holiday of sorts has begun. But I got two classes tomorrow, a test to grade, and a bad mood Tony on my hands. The latter will be hard to help for his CIE exams.
I let my son sit in the driver’s seat. He tried to use his left foot to brake, and he pressed too hard on the gas and the brake. He was so freaked out that he told me he had changed his mind about learning to drive. Ah! He’s an emotional kid.
5:19 AM View
May Day Holiday, the international day of the laborers, is tomorrow. It would be the start of a five day holiday for me, but I have a school open house to do tomorrow and Tony has a Chem CIE exam on the 3rd for which I have to prep him.
6:06 PM View
Tony’s home with me. We participated in a color festival where we got to throw water soluable dye on other students and teachers.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
5:21 AM View
On my agenda today: two exams to proctor in the morning, an AKIC Daily Video to make, Duolingoing, praying, reading, preparation, laundry, a color activity among other things.
I learned of Russell Brand’s conversion and baptism.
4:28 PM View
Tony comes home at 8:30 approximately. I plan on peppering him with Econ questions.
Tony says he wants to learn how to drive. If I can find an empty road in these environs, I’ll start showing him. I want to show him the joys of the internal combustion engine, all the while giving the f u to the climate pantywaists.
And speaking of F Us. Some go out to Biden supporters and those who think the persecution of Trump is something noble.
Rewatching the Matrix. When I first saw the film, years ago, my instinct was to pan it because there was too much leather in it. I thought that maybe this time, I would look more kindly on the film because it gets referenced a lot in the political circles in which I lurk. However, parts of the film still annoy me. It doesn’t do the promised one well or the mentor character well. It has to have its characters talk of the profundity because it can’t show it , give off the air of it, as it were.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
12:34 PM View
Working on a rainy Sunday. Why? Because Wednesday is the May Day Holiday.
Home for lunch. This afternoon, I got to keep myself busy. How will I keep myself busy? Planning classes and planning how to help Tony for his upcoming CIE exams.
5:20 AM View
I did manage to get some sleep last night and still be able to get up at 4:30.
Extended my Hallow and Duolingo streaks to 57 and 1554 days respectively.
Tony went to bed at 7:30 PM last night. He said he was tired. I have three days to bone up on high school chemistry.
12:16 AM View
The IPhone 13 camera took a view photo showing what it more likely looks like when I look out the dining room window during the evening,
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.
Friday, April 26, 2024
1:45 PM View
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?
6:18 PM View
Now in Wuxi.
Would have published the view five minutes earlier but I had to take a poo.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
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.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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?
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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.
Monday, April 22, 2024
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!
Sunday, April 21, 2024
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.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
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.
