Happy National Day! Meet Summer and Lisa.

Teaching English in Wuxi, China will go on a three day hiatus from October 1 to October 3 as HyLite School is closed for the Chinese National Holiday. But don't worry! You can still submit applications for teaching jobs to me at akaulins@gmail.com. I may not be at school but I have the Internet and home. I will gladly respond to all serious applications. You can look to the panel on the left for the link to the ad I have been circulating around the Internet.

In the meanwhile, you can admire the girls who work in our corporate clients office. They are Summer (with the camera) and Lisa (with the glasses).

I will still be posting on my other blogs here and there.

See you on October 4!

The Entrance to HyLite

The stairwell in the photograph above leads up to offices and classrooms. As the students and staff enter, they see posters with photos and profiles of the Teachers. You can see yours truly profiled on the second poster from the left on the top row. Below me is Josie's poster. You can see a photo of Josie, in the pink sweater, in a previous entry.

Helen!

Helen works as a Study Advisor in our Corporate Class office.

Bye Bye Luis!

Luis, who taught at HyLite for two and a half years is returning to Canada in early October. He had a good run here and will be missed by the students.

Last evening, on the school's tab, we took Luis for a fare well dinner.

Snowie!

Snowie works as an assistant in the HyLite V.I.P. IELTS Program. The program is V.I.P. because it guarantees students a score of six and class sizes no larger than eight.

Photos from HyLIte Golf Tournament

Above, Mark (from England) and Dennis (from Ireland) explain the game of golf to some students.

Leo (from Canada) teaches a student how to putt.

Dennis and Mark instruct more students.

Connie, a businesswoman and HyLite student, won the tournament held after the golf clinic.

Caterpillar Golf

Friday night, HyLite school will run a mini-golf tournament for Caterpillar, one of our corporate clients. Leo and I, both from Canada will be running the event. Leo is the golf expert. I will be the scorekeeper for the six hole tournament we will be doing at the school's mini course pictured above.

Josie!

Josie is a Study Advisor at HyLite.

A private class at HyLite

Simon, from London England teaches a private class at HyLite. Private classes at HyLite can have up to four students.

The Library at HyLite Language School

The Library at HyLite Language School has a very eclectic but interesting collection of English books including the National Geographics you can see in the first shelf.

The students don't like talking about baking. They will talk about traffic.

Having done Speakers' Corners, I now have a wealth of resources I can use when I run out of ideas for what to talk about in them. But I do like to come up with fresh ideas to get the students talking. An idea I had last week which I tried last night was to talk about baking and using ovens. The students weren't interested. None of they had an oven in their homes. They may buy baked goods from shops but they don't think of baking as being a healthy way of eating.

So, I instead talked about traffic, making sure to give the students some choices because I asked the students about what kind of drivers and cyclists they were in traffic. Some admitted to being very aggressive.

HyLite Study Advisor Sisi

Here is a photo of Sisi, one of the Study Advisors at HyLite Language School here in Wuxi, China.

Stay tuned to this blog as I will publish more photos of our lovely and friendly staff.

Wuxi Bai Zhuang School Recess

I took this video on the way to teaching some classes at this school.

Back to School.

I am back at school after spending some time in Nanjing, which is 70 minutes by train from Wuxi.

Nanjing is a nice city to visit, as is Shanghai. It is one of Wuxi's virtues that it is halfway between Nanjing and Shanghai, and so one can get the best of both cities without having to live in them. Nanjing is really too big, and its boring parts are too big and too far from its' interesting places. Day to Day life in Nanjing would be a bore.

The students ask: Why bail out AIG, but not Lehman Brothers?

I was teaching a business salon class where we naturally talked about the financial crisis in America. The students were interested in the topic and seemed fairly will informed about it. They told me that Lehman Brothers was not bailed out because the Chinese had shares in it, while AIG which was bailed out had no Chinese shareholders.

Are you telling me that it was an American plot against China? I asked. Possibly, the students answered.