Yesterday while I was seeking for some good compositions written by former students that I put on my blog, I felt grateful for the invention of blog. (more…)
This afternoon I, along with 8 colleagues, went to see Losan. She looked fine. Even just two days after the surgery, she still looked calm and elegant, as if nothing had happened. She said the doctor had already told her that there was 50~70% chance of recurrence of the cancer when she finished chemotherapy last year. How to avoid the recurrence is still a mystery. (more…)
The day before yesterday, hearing that a friend of mine, also a former colleague, went back to hospital for surgery because of recurrent cancer, I felt a heartache. This morning, when I heard her voice on the phone, I was on the verge of tears. However, not to make her sad, I held the tears back, telling her that some friends and I would visit her tomorrow.
She has been fighting cancer for a year. I still firmly believe she will win. The whole universe, please conspire and help her.
This morning seven 314 students and a former 316 student came back to school. Seeing their happy faces, I was elated.
The stduent from former Class 316 is Miranda (萬修安), who is an English major at National Central University. I asked her to recommend some good English novels for high school seniors. She mentioned some, and she said she would make a list and put it on my blog. Well, she did. Just now I found her list on my LifeType blog. Here is the list.
These two days there have been quite a few former students paying me a visit. Yesterday I had lunch with 4 from the former 314 and 2 the former 316. We chatted and laughed until 2:20pm. Then I said goodbye to them except for She-heng. She went back to school with me and we kept talking. (more…)
In the first class of the new semester, I greeted Class 310 warmly, asking in English what they did during the winter vacation. Knowing they hadn’t spoken or even listened English for almost one month, I used this activity as a warm-up. Then I told them about the movie I saw–Yes Man.
Then I let them know what books we are going to use this semester and what lessons in Book 6 we are going to cover in class. (more…)
