Comments for Pathology of Wanderlust http://www.matthewmuller.com Ramblings of a yangguizi teaching English in the Middle Kingdom... Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:09:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Where I Come From by Three Loves, Two Countries | Lost Laowai China Blog http://www.matthewmuller.com/2010/where-i-come-from-663#comment-13 Three Loves, Two Countries | Lost Laowai China Blog Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:09:25 +0000 http://matthewmuller.com/?p=663#comment-13 [...] of being somewhere new wore off and culture shock set in.  Here it was very easy to idealize my beautiful country of golden fields and azure skies, and criticize my new home in the City of Perpetual Gloom.  You can try staying sane in an insane [...] [...] of being somewhere new wore off and culture shock set in.  Here it was very easy to idealize my beautiful country of golden fields and azure skies, and criticize my new home in the City of Perpetual Gloom.  You can try staying sane in an insane [...]

]]> Comment on Back to School: Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom! by A Portrait of the Teacher through the Eyes of a Student2 : Pathology of Wanderlust http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/day-1-boomlay-boomlay-boomlay-boom-256#comment-5 A Portrait of the Teacher through the Eyes of a Student2 : Pathology of Wanderlust Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:17:48 +0000 http://matthewmuller.com/?p=256#comment-5 [...] In the article, she recalls the first day I introduced myself to the class. Her perspective can be compared with mine as I had written about it too in the post “Back to School.” [...] [...] In the article, she recalls the first day I introduced myself to the class. Her perspective can be compared with mine as I had written about it too in the post “Back to School.” [...]

]]> Comment on Back to School: Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom! by A Portrait of the Teacher through the Eyes of a Student : Pathology of Wanderlust http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/day-1-boomlay-boomlay-boomlay-boom-256#comment-4 A Portrait of the Teacher through the Eyes of a Student : Pathology of Wanderlust Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:24:01 +0000 http://matthewmuller.com/?p=256#comment-4 [...] In the article, she recalls the first day I introduced myself to the class.  Her perspective can be compared with mine as I had written about it too in the post “Back to School.” [...] [...] In the article, she recalls the first day I introduced myself to the class.  Her perspective can be compared with mine as I had written about it too in the post “Back to School.” [...]

]]> Comment on A Journey to Hengshan Mountain by A Day in the Life of a Fake Teacher in the Real China : Pathology of Wanderlust http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/a-journey-to-hengshan-mountain-473#comment-10 A Day in the Life of a Fake Teacher in the Real China : Pathology of Wanderlust Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:31:31 +0000 http://matthewmuller.com/?p=473#comment-10 [...] “Oh, okay.”  That was my mantra.  A little something I had picked up while on a pilgrimage to Hengshan Mountain. [...] [...] “Oh, okay.”  That was my mantra.  A little something I had picked up while on a pilgrimage to Hengshan Mountain. [...]

]]> Comment on It's Gettin' Hot in Here (So Hot) by grocha http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/its-gettin-hot-in-here-so-hot-519#comment-12 grocha Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:30:28 +0000 http://matthewmuller.com/?p=519#comment-12 ....... you have some way with words Bowtie ;-) So have you found out- is it more than just skin deep? And.... when can I come out and visit? 8-) ……. you have some way with words Bowtie ;-)

So have you found out- is it more than just skin deep? And…. when can I come out and visit? 8-)

]]> Comment on Bear Fighting in Cyberspace by 36 Hours in Billings, MT : Pathology of Wanderlust http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/bear-fighting-in-cyberspace-504#comment-11 36 Hours in Billings, MT : Pathology of Wanderlust Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:42:40 +0000 http://matthewmuller.com/?p=504#comment-11 [...] all was well in the world and that after my adventure in China I would be going to PA school at Rocky Mountain College.  Now I had to start thinking about running for a position in the PA student government.  And I [...] [...] all was well in the world and that after my adventure in China I would be going to PA school at Rocky Mountain College.  Now I had to start thinking about running for a position in the PA student government.  And I [...]

]]> Comment on 36 Hours in Billings, MT by Bear Fighting in Cyberspace : Pathology of Wanderlust http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/36-hours-in-billings-mt-443#comment-9 Bear Fighting in Cyberspace : Pathology of Wanderlust Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:25:11 +0000 http://matthewmuller.com/?p=443#comment-9 [...] have wondered if I will one day practice medicine in China.  During an interview at Rocky Mountain College, home of the Battlin’ Bears, the director had even suggested that I could do a clinical [...] [...] have wondered if I will one day practice medicine in China.  During an interview at Rocky Mountain College, home of the Battlin’ Bears, the director had even suggested that I could do a clinical [...]

]]> Comment on Teaching Thoreau in the Heartland of China by A Journey to Hengshan Mountain : Pathology of Wanderlust http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/teaching-thoreau-in-the-heartland-of-china-312#comment-7 A Journey to Hengshan Mountain : Pathology of Wanderlust Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:39:35 +0000 http://matthewmuller.com/?p=312#comment-7 [...] Some gods had gold skin and black, bushy beards.  People folded their hands and kneeled.   Outside, people threw firecrackers into ovens.  I was curious as to what all this signified, but by now, I had stopped asking questions.  My guides were as clueless as I was.  Inside, incense burned and gods with painted eyes glared at me.  There was a god for everything.  There was a god for wealth.  One for longevity.  And still another for making babies.  This latter was explained to me by American Pie girl. [...] [...] Some gods had gold skin and black, bushy beards.  People folded their hands and kneeled.   Outside, people threw firecrackers into ovens.  I was curious as to what all this signified, but by now, I had stopped asking questions.  My guides were as clueless as I was.  Inside, incense burned and gods with painted eyes glared at me.  There was a god for everything.  There was a god for wealth.  One for longevity.  And still another for making babies.  This latter was explained to me by American Pie girl. [...]

]]> Comment on Traditional Chinese Medicine & Elizabethan Theatre by Teaching British Romanticism in China : Pathology of Wanderlust http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/week-five-and-the-drama-has-already-started-327#comment-8 Teaching British Romanticism in China : Pathology of Wanderlust Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:01:46 +0000 http://matthewmuller.com/?p=327#comment-8 [...] Several veteran foreign teachers shared stories about students they never knew existed, who showed up for the final exam, couldn’t read the questions, speak more than a few words of English, and either copied the answers, or just failed the exam. The teachers subsequently failed these students. But they were administratively passed anyway. Of course this was only anecdotal evidence. Perhaps just a gross generalization. How true it really was will remain a mystery for the time being. But the stories helped me to understand why some of the English majors I taught couldn’t read my syllabus or answer a simple yes or no question: “Do you like this poem?” But I still remember Lucy, a student attending a university in Shanghai who had the balls to tell me I should read Twilight. There was another student, Vera who was writing a paper on Dreiser’s An American Tragedy. She came to my office distressed about this 1925 novel as evidence that the American Dream was a farce. There were others as well. The drama students in particular shined bright. And now, I was meeting some very vocal and confident students from a freshman Oral English class I had taken over from Gee. [...] [...] Several veteran foreign teachers shared stories about students they never knew existed, who showed up for the final exam, couldn’t read the questions, speak more than a few words of English, and either copied the answers, or just failed the exam. The teachers subsequently failed these students. But they were administratively passed anyway. Of course this was only anecdotal evidence. Perhaps just a gross generalization. How true it really was will remain a mystery for the time being. But the stories helped me to understand why some of the English majors I taught couldn’t read my syllabus or answer a simple yes or no question: “Do you like this poem?” But I still remember Lucy, a student attending a university in Shanghai who had the balls to tell me I should read Twilight. There was another student, Vera who was writing a paper on Dreiser’s An American Tragedy. She came to my office distressed about this 1925 novel as evidence that the American Dream was a farce. There were others as well. The drama students in particular shined bright. And now, I was meeting some very vocal and confident students from a freshman Oral English class I had taken over from Gee. [...]

]]> Comment on Dinner with the Yu Family by Teaching British Romanticism in China : Pathology of Wanderlust http://www.matthewmuller.com/2009/dinner-with-the-yu-family-286#comment-6 Teaching British Romanticism in China : Pathology of Wanderlust Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:57:23 +0000 http://matthewmuller.com/?p=286#comment-6 [...] syllabus or answer a simple yes or no question: “Do you like this poem?” But I still remember Lucy, a student attending a university in Shanghai who had the balls to tell me I should read Twilight. [...] [...] syllabus or answer a simple yes or no question: “Do you like this poem?” But I still remember Lucy, a student attending a university in Shanghai who had the balls to tell me I should read Twilight. [...]

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