Photographic Stories from China - Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Tianjin, SuZhou, HongHu
2005 List of Stories from China
published at Magic City Morning Star News.
As a contributing columnist at Magic City Morning Star News in Maine USA I am able to publish photographic stories about China in a better format than at King's Calendar. This file contains links to all the articles I published at Magic City about China in 2005
Dec 29, 2005 The Pompous and Arrogant R.P.BenDedek It is good that you rudely shouted that you are not an American, to "put a kid in his place". It is better that you are an embarrassment to Australia than to America. Have you ever read your own articles, to see just how arrogant and pompous you sound?
Dec 9, 2005 Insanity! You Get it From Kids! Part 2. I turned back to the co-ordinator and said: "It doesn't matter if I speak fast or slow, loudly or quietly, because when you have MP3 earphones in your ears, you can't hear anything. When you are reading the Chinese newspaper, you don't listen to what I say. When you spend the whole lesson talking to your friend, it doesn't matter what I say!"
Nov 23, 2005 Abandoned and Orphaned Children in China. Love Without Boundaries "began when a group of adoptive parents met one small orphaned boy in need of heart surgery. Hundreds of people around the world sent donations to save his life".
Nov 18, 2005 Insanity! You Get it From Kids Part 1. "I don't feel that there is anything of value that I can contribute to their overall English education!" I could say that, because that would be true. Of course, I could just speak the plain truth and say, "They're a bunch of lazy no hopers, who should not be in university let alone be in English Classes."
Nov 11, 2005 Canada's Whale Researcher Dr. Volker Deecke Volker Deecke had an underwater video camera set up somewhere along the Canadian (?) coastline, and you could link into it and see whales underwater in real time.
Nov 7, 2005 Queensland - The Sunshine State Queensland (The Sunshine State) is a tropical paradise, where it hardly ever rains, and the sun shines all day. True! Just ask anyone when it was that they last saw rain.
Oct 19, 2005 ESL vs Conversational English in China I tip my hat off to the ESL teachers, and will continue on my very unprofessional way, helping my students to articulate the words that they already know.
Oct 8, 2005 A Philippine Wedding & Corregidor Island He also took us to a Japanese Peace memorial that has 3 guns in place, facing Batan. He said they he got many people to sign a petition for the Japanese to remove the guns or remove the word 'Peace' from the Sign. They changed the sign.
Jul 13, 2005 Teaching English Summer Camps in China More often than not however, when I receive emails, it is to complain about something that I have written. The best was from the guy in the United Nations who called me a racist for my remarks about the Chinese. It would be so nice to be able to just make a plan and then carry it out, but here in China, it is almost impossible. My university, when they discovered that I was going away for the Summer informed me that I MUST BE BACK before the start of the Next Semester, but couldn't tell me when the Next Semester starts.
Jul 1, 2005 Billy Graham and Other Things. There may be reasons, and then again there may be REASONS why Bill and Hilliary Clinton turned up at the Billy Graham campaign, but I hardly see it as surprising. If one studies the Prophets of Israel, the principal theme is always the same: 'Woe unto the leaders who have been put in charge!"
Jun 28, 2005 Chinese Examinations, American Students and other things. The last time I met a big batch of Americans was last summer in Hong Hu. I decided not to present them with the 12 bottles of beautiful Chinese Red wine that I had bought them. Instead I drank them myself over the following months.
Jun 27, 2005 Chinese Examinations. The only decent student (by which I mean the only one who cares or tries to learn), asked me the other day to give the single most important reason why I hate his class and have asked the school to relieve me of my duties with them. This is what I said:
May 5, 2005 Labour Day Blues Foreigners by definition are: American, Rich, White, Blue Eyed, Speak English, and are Christians.
Mar 21, 2005 Condoleezza Rice and Religion in China If I grant here, that the Bible is infallible in every respect, and that it's every word was uttered by God and specifically dictated by Him; then it occurs to me that if one will not belong to a registered Chinese church because of theological restrictions, then that person has no real faith in the Power of the Word of God, i.e. The Bible.
Mar 5, 2005 2005 - Security in Beijing The very first thing I was told when I arrived in China (in Beijing actually) is that everything in China is a facade, and as time has gone by, remembering this has helped me to stay sane.
Feb 7, 2005 Brisbane City's Captain Sandy Stewart. Sandy Stewart, or "Captain Sandy," as he became known to his friends and passengers before he retired as a Brisbane City, "City Sights Tour Operator", now has Alzheimer's Disease, and he is doing his best to see the world before he forgets who he is.
Jan 30, 2005 Spring Daffodils, Cigarettes and Cameras. By the time that those eager Chinese have saved enough money to go to the West, the West will have less freedoms than Communist China.
R.P.BenDedek is from Brisbane Australia and is the author of 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' at http://www.kingscalendar.com His academic articles set forth Apologetics for and results of his discovery of an "artificial chronological scheme" running through the Bible, Josephus, the Damascus Documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Seder Olam Rabbah.
He writes photographic 'Stories from China' and social editorial commentaries, both at KingsCalendar, and as a contributing newspaper columnist. He currently teaches Conversational English in China and in addition to his English Lessons at KingsCalendar, he has created specific sites for Students of English.
