A Year Working for the People's Republic of China | The People are the Heroes Now
I am not sure what most of the other music teachers think of me. They seem to be a chirpy bunch – they’re a bucket of smiles and mid-day Mandarin jokes I’m not privy to. And they seem interested in me being interested in their office and in them. Asking a question, even through a … Continue reading Virgynihtee: The Musical
I’m teaching two sections of 9th-grade World Music. I’m astoundingly white, and studied the whitest sort of music that there is: academic composition is a tradition of men in powdered wigs writing music for like flutes and shit, and then other men in the 1960s haranguing each other about the nature of art in drafty … Continue reading The Internet Speaks Chinese
At the part-time job I worked in Colorado – the one where my boss kept trying to sing on the job – it was important to everyone in the program to be an Educator. I’d hear it at all the staff meetings: “Well, as an educator…” is how sentences would start on the reg. It … Continue reading An Education
It’s been a very stressful week here at IK-12. I started it determined to be a good cultural houseguest; a determination that lasted all the way through my first Chinese seminar. I then pointed and laughed at the other teachers’ stress – what fools, toiling away at lesson plans designed in committee! – which was … Continue reading Gan Bei
