To answer your question: Yes, I made it back to China in one piece. I've been here for about a week and a half now and have been back to teaching for three days. I forgot my beloved sweatshirt at home, and probably should have brought tons more stuff with me (not), but I'm here. Upon arriving, we had to decide between the apartment with terrible floors, broken sink, and awful/death trap stove, or the apartment with a liiiittle bit of mold happening on the walls in the corners and a shower...which sounds like a metal grinder and spits out alternately boiling hot water or ice. We went with the mold apartment, because overall, it was actually CLEANER, and had three bedrooms with beds, plus bathroom, living room and kitchen with lovely floors. We're very sparsely furnished and kitchen equipped right now, but we'll succumb to material overload soon enough I'm sure.
I am now officially an High School Art Teacher. This is perhaps the last thing I thought I'd ever be, but it's turning out okay. I teach 10th, 11th and 12th grades, the 12th graders being an A.P. class I'm still writing a syllabus for. Whenever I demo anything on the board, I am instantly an artistic goddess, mostly due to their lack of exposure to Western/any art, but also because I'm kind of awesome, or at least that's what I like to tell myself. The Blonde Man is teaching A.P. and non-A.P. World History to a whooping 2 kids at a time. That's right, four hours a day, with two kids each hour. Talk about small classes. Soon I'll have pictures to post, so I'll wait to further comment on the state of the school until I have those to show you, but I just thought I should report in for blogging duty. There will be more... so much more, later.
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