6:15 PM View

 I didn’t go to the apartment for lunch.  I was tempted to say home but that’s not right.  Our home is in Wuxi.  Or it’s nowhere.

Annoying day.  It was tempting to explode at somebody.  But I didn’t.  My grade 12 kids really let me down.  I let their video project be their mid-term.  I told them to get it finished before the start of mid term week.  Instead, they saved it for the last minute.  I sort of let them get it done tonight, but others were breathing down my neck to get the mid-term results by 5:00 PM.  So a lot of the kids are getting zeroes.  I spent a month talking about the videos Every class I did with them, I talked about the damn things.  Still, they didn’t bother till the last minute..

A scheduling mistake ruined my lunch.  I was supposed to be proctoring an exam from 12:00 to 13:00.  At 11:50, I learned they had made a mistake and it was to be at 13:00 to 14:00.  It was not enough time for me to have lunch.  The exam also didn’t actually start till 13:29.  At one o’clock, the exams get printed.  They used to mailed to us in an envelope, but the students were caught cheating.  Somewhere in the system, someone is getting a copy of the exam.  So we print the things at the key time as a security measure which means the exams take longer to get done.

My wife phoned and wants us to go back to Wuxi.  We wanted the spend the weekend in Jiangyin but we’re being guilt tripped into going back.  Every weekend in Wuxi is too much.  And we don’t have a social life.  Our weekend in Wuxi revolves around when she is not working.  At least in Jiangyin, we can meet some foreigners.