Our First Classes

Grace and I have thoroughly enjoyed teaching our introductory units, each of which have had 33-45 students. The young man pictured is representative of my Freshman Oral classes; he is from Liaoning, a province in northeast China bordering on North Korea; he has studied English since middle school and is majoring in Computer Science and Technology. He has 14 classes this semester and although Oral English is not at the top of his priority list, he is hoping to become more conversant and to go to graduate school in either the US or Hong Kong. He says he loves sports, especially basketball, soccer, tennis and ping-pong... "Ted" is his English name, which he chose at some point in one of his previous English classes, in part because it sounds a little like the first syllable of his Chinese given name: "Tianhong"