not let any more opportunities pass me by

outside of the university is what I will be doing for the next couple of months. I’m happy someone called up and asked for my help on this goal. Yippeee! I’m excited again!

I woke up early this morning as usual, took the camera and went outside for some inspiring subjects. I had loads although I wasn’t sure if they were good.

Anyway, when I came back, I saw a banner hanged just outside of the gate of our guest house where I currently live, it said, “We are welcoming you participants for the 3rd International TEA Processing Seminar at HAU.”

I remember last year, I was also dying to join but I had classes. This time, I should not miss it. YAY! I am lucky!

Tomorrow, we’ll start at 8:30.

This morning after breakfast, my former supervisor was insistently knocking at my door. I opened the door and let her in. She was looking lovelier than ever as she walked in. We chatted for a while about my recent trips and she mentioned that I could fly to Singapore from Guangzhou for only 300 yuan or 700 back and forth, goodness, cheap! If only I had an account, well this is the sad side of it. :0(

Anyway, here are some great news!

1. She’s asking if I know of someone who’s interested to teach at the International College. I told her that I will try to find one for her. So to all of you out there who have the passion for teaching and are willing to be assigned here for a year, please don’t hesitate to apply.
Here’s her email address pls: Linda6022@sina.comWANTED FOREIGN TEACHER

2. She told me that I was being invited by her college to handle Spoken English classes to some of her students on weekends starting this coming term. YAY! Why not? I need the money!hehe

3. She has a 7-year old boy and he needs a tutor. She was asking if I could be one. Why not? I love kids and I’m sure this will be fun!

Thank God for the blessings and for the opportunities. I really need to earn more so I can push through with some of my goals here.

so far so good..

The kids are so intelligent and artistic!

The office called and asked if I would be interested in teaching children in a nearby elementary school from July 15th until the 25th. I immediately said YES! Yehey! Isn’t it great??

Oh well, I worked hard for it hehe. Hmm I just finished a 1 1/2 hour lecture. I’ll have another one on Wednesday next week s000 it means 200 yuan again! Yeheyy!!
...and Saturday means shopping day!!!!

I started my tutorials last week-end and am happy to say, it was a success at least to me as their teacher. I felt successful because I am able to mingle with a bunch of Hybrid Rice experts who will be staying in Liberia to conduct a training next month. This is such a breakthrough just knowing them! And what’s more, they are so eager to learn and I love that feeling when they would put a lot of efforts doing the roleplays I assigned to them. There’s a bit of language difficulty but the big thing is that, they have developed that passion for this language and that is what counts most for me as their mentor.

I had turned some down months ago. Now I got a new offer from a research institute to train and teach experts about basic English for 3 consecutive weekends starting Sat. I immediately said yes!