Wednesday was a short teaching day. I actually managed to get up early today and make the 7:15 bus on time. Kerry was very kind and made me scrambled eggs and toast. As usual, it took 1 hour and 40 minutes to get to school. After hanging out in my office for awhile, I taught class. My computer was unplugged and the screen wasn't working when I got there, but a student (Shen Ruo Yu) helped me out with that. First we finished up the group discussion from last week (talking about Mme. Reisz and Alcee Arobin). Then I decided to read part of "Story of an Hour" to them; this didn't work out as well as I hoped it would. They all laughed and then told me they had that story on some sort of exam that they had to take--oh well. We still talked a bit about how the story compared to The Awakening and I read to them parts of the ending of The Awakening as well. At the end, three students drew names to call on students to answer questions. Most of the students did well with this. (The first student, whom I suspected of plagiarism early on in the class, faltered greatly, which confirmed my suspicions that she's probably not doing the reading.) I then got on the bus for the long ride home.
The ride home wasn't as bad, though: about 1 hour and 10 minutes. It does strike me as annoying that I have to do over 3.5 hours of transportation for a 1.5 hour class on the "easy" Wednesdays. That is one thing I like least about SISU. I ate my lunch on the bus and managed to get the 1:38 745 home. Unlike when we walked around the Randy the other night, it was a beautiful, clear day today: sunny blue skies and 72 degrees. Once I got home, I took a four-hour nap: I was that tired. Spaghetti for dinner.
Pic from the day:
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| Shuttle bus that takes me to the Songjiang campus. |
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