I finished my first day of classes today. Only 2 hours on Mondays, and I have Fridays off. I teach a total of 14 hours a week which is two hours less than last semester. Many Chinese professors teach 12 hours or less, which is about the same as the class load for teachers at the University I graduated from. Last semester one of the foreign teachers was teaching 22 hours a week. But she had previously taught 40 hours of English a week at a job in Singapore. Most of my students are Sophomores this year. They are the same students from last semester. I also have two classes of Juniors. I am teaching Culture of Great Britain this semester, and maybe of other English speaking countries if I run out of things to say about Britain. Most of my friends laugh at me when I say I am going to teach British culture. They may be right to scoff, but I plan to enjoy teaching this subject this semester, and maybe even learn something myself.I have posted some pictures of the Campus.
The first picture is the rock on which the name of the College I teach at is carved. Its called Ou River College. The Ou River is one of the main geographic features of Wenzhou. The second picture is an administration building with lots of offices of important people of Wenzhou University. The small round building in the foreground is marked as housing the University Museam, but I cannot corroborate that as I have never been in to see. I mostly posted these photos because I haven't posted any of the University yet, and these aren't bad considering I took them with my cellphone camera.
