JIETT

I am finally in Nanjing and I am teaching. The weather seems to have cooled and is pretty nice. I have a half hour to 40 minute bus ride to the new campus for Jiangsu Institute for Trade and Technology (JIETT). JIETT is a two year college. It is nice to teach at the new campus, but there is not much else out there other than the campus and a lot of construction. Someday it will be nice though. They are building apartments, business offices, highways, parks and even a subway line close to the school.

Only half of the students are on campus right now. The freshmen come next week, I think. So we will see what the campus looks like then. The classrooms are a little small for the number of students I have, varying from 34 and 46. There is no air conditioning (or heating from what I am told) in the classrooms. There are only some ceiling fans to move air around. My biggest concern is acoustics. Noise just seems to accumulate in the rooms, so trying to hear what the students are whispering can be difficult. The students are shy about speaking, but they are friendly and will say hello out side of class, if I acknowledge them first.

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