{"id":92,"date":"2011-10-24T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/?p=92"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:39:15","slug":"i-am-an-introvert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/naturism\/i-am-an-introvert\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am An Introvert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alone time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

There is only one week to go until Hallowe’en. Hallowe’en isn’t a Chinese thing nor is it a celebration that we care for even in Canada. We do buy the treats to hand out in our town as it would be a faux pas for the retired principal to not do his part to maintain social events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are getting tired as we have picked up another teaching gig in order to help our university gain even more status. We had been asked to teach a few times a week at a prestigious elementary school, the one that several of the college deans have their children attend. I have been giving it my best efforts, however I just don’t enjoy teaching grade 4 and 5 students. Still, the experience pays more per teaching hour than I get at the university. To be asked to do this is a high honour which none of the other foreign teachers have been asked to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I said, we are getting tired. We need a holiday. We didn’t get to have the usual National Day holiday of several days, a time when we usually travel. In the past, we visited Beijing 2006, Xi’an 2007, and went to Chongqing in 2010 via a cruise through the Three Gorges along the Yangtze River. Our social life has been limited as well. We are not in the “in crowd” with our foreign teacher colleagues. And, I think that has a lot to do with my withdrawal from trying to be extroverted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am an introvert, and as such, I need to withdraw in order to have enough energy to cope with a busy outer world. The cost involved in recharging my energy levels usually comes at the expense of engagement with others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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