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By admin, January 23, 2012 4:56 pm

FAO stands for Foreign Expert Officer.  A person gets this job description if their school hiring foreign teachers.    They are the ones who does the endless needed paper works of the school regarding the hiring and getting permits.   Since I was their first foreign teacher, then it was like a trial and error for him.  Good thing, their city officers are always give time for the papers to be done, then there was not much problem.  Mr. Bin was one  of the FAO i worked with that I cannot forget because of his friendliness and kindness.  He is charming! A right word for him.  He is a friend to everyone and since he thinks am so far away from home, he is extra kind to me.  Always making me laugh.

This is Mr. Liu Bin and Helen in a Mongolian native costume.
They paid for this attire just for picture purposes.

Since today is Chinese new year, I remember my Chinese friends in a special way.  If I am there I can surely treat them for a free cigars – not just Mr. Bin but all all my guy friends who loves cigars.   Even though I don’t like them smoking in front of me but there are special occasions when I just tolerate them.

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By admin, December 2, 2010 3:11 pm

I am trying to catch up!

Happy December everyone!  How time flies.  Yesterday was December first and now it is December second.  At times i wish time will stand still so that i can finish my work for the day.

Anyway, since it is Christmas and it’s my first Christmas in Nostalgia, let me share this month photos with Christmas spirit. I am really hopefully that i can complete the five Wednesday.  Few weeks from now, my daughter and I will be off for the holiday.  We are going somewhere in paradise.

Photos today happen in December 2004 at Zhangjiakou Vocational and Technical College.  It was the first Christmas that they had a foreign teacher so I tried to do something that their first Christmas with a foreign teacher will be memorable.

I let the English department hosted a Christmas program to be attended by the whole school and let my English classes (each class) do a presentation for their December examination grade.   After the Christmas program,  I invited all the teachers in our department for a dinner at a restaurant.  After the dinner, I went along with my boss to her home to spend the night as my place is a little bit distance from the center of the city.

We dine at a round table so our picture was sort of by angle.

Here’s my angle:

It was one cold winter night.  So all the food were hot and spicy plus the red wine.
I cannot remember if we had baijou or the rice wine.
Seems we are all having a blush here.

I think almost all of them gave me a gift and when i reached my bosses home, i enjoyed opening my gifts.
Here’s two of them:

When i woke up in the morning, I was excited to open up my present. This one here is from the Penny’s husband, Mr. Nan.
Miniature tea pots.  So cute.  I brought this home to the Philippines when i came back.

And this red scarp/shawl

I left it there thinking i can’t use it here in the Philippines because there is no winter.

We enjoyed taking pictures that morning with shawls. 

I remember that around lunch time i went back home because someone will be waiting for me online at 2 pm.

I am going back to China for this and other personal stuff. hehehe

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By admin, January 28, 2009 12:20 am

I think because it’s new year out there, am deeply missing my Chinese friends.

Tell me which one you like best…the english or the chinese version? I love the Chinese version better.

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By admin, October 4, 2008 1:11 am

I’d like to be in Xinjiang Province, PR of China!

I haven’t seen the place nor the natives in real but I saw and read about them, it make me burn inside to hope and wish that one day I could visit the place. How i wish China is not that big so that Xinjiang is very accessible as i can travel from my residential cities to and from Bejing anytime i want to.

Map source: internet

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By admin, August 30, 2008 3:07 pm

AUGUST 23 > Has blogging become a part of your daily life that you can’t afford not to look at it even for a day?

My Answer:
I miss doing this meme last week-end due to the transfer so let me take this opportunity of answering it now.

My answer is YES. It’s always on my mind incase i can’t get to see it in a day.

AUGUST 30 > Was there a time in your life that you said “That’s it! I’ve had enough!”?

My Answer:
Yeah several times but the major one was when i decided it was all over for me and my husband. And that decision was made the moment i took the FX that will bring me to Manila and to the Pier. I waved goodbye and that goodbye means forever for both of us.

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By admin, July 29, 2008 7:14 am

Am coming back here!

Been thinking of this awhile. The other day, i posted a a paid post just before my MOVED entry and i really thought that was the last. But now, i think, that won’t be the last yet as i got another one today. Am happy but really — mixed feelings.

I just thought of moving this blog to another blog because i am having a hard time updating all the blogs at the same time. So in whatever way i can regularly update this blog, let me.

When i miss my friends in China, i browse over my albums at home and if am not home, i dig up my archive at photobucket, so let me share this one. One of my last photos there. I think this was taken a day or a day before the last day in school.

This is me with my boss, Penny (the one in curly hair & glasses) and Linda, one of the chinese english teachers. I think my eyes are not so obviously puffy. My last days there were spent packing, eating farewell treats from students & teachers & Admin (maka loka ang invitation here and there), and crying too. I can just imagine the stress am into the last days.