No one is told anything about anything beforehand. We don’t know if there will be a holiday next week. We don’t know who will get reassigned to some other place next month. Everything just happens. You are only told what you need to know absolutely just before when you need to know it. Now I am teaching two huge 70+ classes because one of the original three classes has been split into two and merged with the remaining classes. The entire second grade is now one huge fucking class (~200). They use the canteen for classroom. The final exam will be had one week earlier than previously thought and the exam will be designed by and given to us from “above”. And listening will be part of the exam for the first time. I have less than two weeks to adapt the students to that.
And I will have to make time to take individual pictures of every single kid I teach. Then I will just leave and face an uncertain future.
I might try to find a job in Beijing. But with a background in Philosophy I don’t think I will ever get one. I have no regrets. I knew it from day one.
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