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Opening Ceremony for the New Students

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Tonight the Opening Ceremony will be held to welcome the new students at our university. Included in the event are a candle-light ceremony, lots of speeches, and of course the grand show performed mostly by the students from the artistic departments (music, dance, etc.). A full report will follow. Even though the freshman students have been here since the beginning of September, they’ve been involved in the military training so far, and no official welcome has taken place, so, tonight it’s time to say: Welcome Freshmen of 2011!

Busy Campus

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Our campus has gotten busy again. Hardly a day goes by without any special activities going on at the main square of our campus. The other day ran into one. Couldn’t quite figure out what exactly it was about, but it had something to do with bottles. They’d set up lots of tables and students were sitting and painting bottles obviously enjoying the task. I think, I like our campus when it’s a little more quiet!

Around Town: Student Military Training

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Every year the Freshman students have to spend their first month at university doing military training. That involves hours of exercising, usually in sun and heat (something that especially some girls dislike, because they like to keep their skin as untanned as possible). In any case, this year’s military training has been reduced to a minimum so far, since it’s been raining and pouring every single day for pretty much the last two weeks. Lucky for those girls, I’d say, though I haven’t figured out yet what they do when their training is cancelled due to bad weather …

Back to School

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School is starting back again, so this morning I took my camera out to record the crowds of students flocking into the teaching buildings. Back to school also means that from now on every morning, and whenever classes are over, our campus is getting crowded with  students on their way to class, to their dorms, to another class, or just being out and about. And since the number of students increases every year, our campus gets busier and busier with each fall semester that passes. I’ll be in class myself later on today, therefore to everyone who is going back to school these days: My best wishes for the fall semester 2011!

Around Town: Dressing Up the Campus

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This weekend, all the students will be back for the classes which will start next Monday. So, as always with these occasions, the campus his been “dressed up.” After all, students will bring their parents or relatives, and for that the school should present itself in the best light. These days, there are flags everywhere on campus. The fountains and waterfall usually are turned on to show off the beauty of this place. Except … there is still a lot of construction going on. And those sites right now are far from pretty.

Construction Zone

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As the new semester is drawing near, there are construction zones everywhere around the foreign teacher’s building. With the increasing number of students, walkways need to be broadened so that there is enough capacity for everyone to move along swiftly. And since there is no alternative to get to those places, everyone has to use those walkways while work is in progress!

New Teachers Arrived

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The summer break is quickly moving to its end – the new teachers for the school year of 2011/2012 have arrived. And they bring some fresh air into our routine. After all, their excitement about being in China hasn’t worn off yet, so they pretty much like everything, get excited about everything, and have not yet learned what it means to struggle with the differences of the culture. In any case, for me it means there’s new people to meet, new colleagues to work with, new friends to be made.

They’re Building

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Well, to tell the truth, I haven’t been much around the foreign teacher’s apartments after I got back from Hong Kong, until the meals started back in the new and upgraded dining hall this past weekend. All the more surprised was I to see that a roof they had built between the two foreign teacher’s buildings some time in May (if I remember correctly), and that still was there when I last went over there in the middle of July, now is gone again. So much for putting that construction up there in the first place. For me, the good news is, I don’t have to move yet, and I’m thankful for every delay in the construction progress!

Around Town: Construction Zone

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It’s the summer break, and that means our campus turns into a construction zone. Shopkeepers change owners, shops get a facelift, so do many corners of our campus, and probably the biggest construction zone around is the new foreign faculty’s flat, which should have been done by now, but as a matter of fact, there’s no end to building in sight. For me, that means happy news, since I don’t yet have to move, which means I can enjoy my time doing other things.