Last Classes

85 Information Science and Electrical Engineering majors in two freshman Oral English classes... their two-part final exams were this afternoon, the oral portion of which is already graded... now to grade the written one (evidence that they were listening attentively to their classmates' oral presentations.)

I will miss teaching classes like these next year!

Last Office Hours

Great having both Will and Tim there for my last Office Hours of the school year... just a super time chatting with current and former students about everything from favorite movies and music to college and plans for the future...

The bearded ones will be spending the next three days in Xi'an, best known as the city nearest the Terracotta Warriors... they will be riding a sleeper train tomorrow night!

Hot Pot & KTV

What better way to spend a Saturday evening when our two youngest sons are visiting than dinner out and three hours of Karaoke with two of the more talented vocalists on our campus?... the two pictured at right held their own (on the English-language songs.)

Michael and Harry sang in 4 different languages!

Ryan's Graduation

Ryan is on the top row, third from left.

Grace and I aren't the only members of the family who have been in China the past three years... My sister, Betsy, and her family have been in Shanghai with Disney during the same period.
Today is my nephew, Ryan's high school graduation date, and Tim is there to represent!

Niece Nicole is in the Class of 2016 at Shanghai Community International School... we'll have to see who can be there for her graduation!!

Special Guest Lecturer

I had him speak in all three classes today to the delight of all my students.  In the freshman oral classes, I asked Tim to do a PowerPoint presentation like the one all of the students have been doing to introduce themselves to their classmates (and me), and since in some of his pictures he appears clean-shaven, the most common feedback he received from my students was that he looks even more handsome without his beard!

4 Sports in 2 Days

Tuesday evening it was soccer and ping-pong, last night he tossed the pig-skin with the flag-football team players, who were amazed by his one-handed catches, and then a little basketball. Today, he'll be sharing in all three of my classes... the schedule is filling up with student requests... Grace and I just love having him with us, and look forward to having Will join the fun in a couple of weeks!

Tim's Here!!

No jet lag for this young man... his flight from Seoul was shorter than my subway ride from the other side of Beijing, and he will be here for the entire month!