My School: Initial Impressions and A General Overview
I haven’t done any blogging in the past month ostensibly because of a poor Internet connection. That might have been a legit excuse three weeks ago when I was off to get a new router, but the truth is more that I’ve been lazy. My VPN still doesn’t work well or consistently enough for me to put up pictures here – for some reason blogspot is banned in China – but at the very least I’ll try to get up to date with the information. When I last wrote I’d recently gotten back to Hangzhou after a weekend in Beijing. That was the third week of September, and although October wasn’t exactly a riveting month of excitement, there are lots of details I can fill you in on. Let’s start off with my school. As you know, I am working in Hangzhou, at a high school as a guidance counselor. Specifically, I’m employed in the International Division of my high school, in which students pay upwards of 10 grand a year and study with the explicit goal of attending an international university af