Having moaned to a certain extent for years about having to work on, now the idea that in a few months time I will not be talking to the world seems weird. It has been such a privilege to enter people's lives and the nice thing is that I am still in touch with two of my long term students. Most one meets for a moment and then that is it, but some you teach for ages. Today I was teaching a woman on her electric bike whilst she cycled home from work!. She told me in China students are all tested on a sport, so her daughter had to take swimming classes. In the next class, students confirmed that basketball has taken over in China as the most popular sport. The courts are around each city and people seem to like the fact that it is a team game. One student talked about how he choose his English name, often something of interest to me, but one rarely discussed. Apparently he did not like the name Jacob, which his American teacher gave him as Jacob was a bad man in the Bible - need to check that one, so he adopted the name Karl, after Karl Marx.
In the next couple of months will try and return to this to capture the spirit of some of the classes. Fewer Europeans at present but not sure if now so many countries are back in lockdown whether that will change or not.
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