{"id":392,"date":"2010-09-09T15:10:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T07:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2010-09-09T15:10:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T07:10:40","slug":"now-for-a-well-deserved-week-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/09\/09\/now-for-a-well-deserved-week-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Now For a Well Deserved Week-End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dsc03725.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-393\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dsc03725.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On my way to class I happened upon this scene. \u00a0After a long morning which starts early for the crew working in front of the apartment building, usually around 7:00 am, it is time for a bit of a break. \u00a0Since the workers work late into the day, often past darkness sets in, the workers grab a bit of rest when they can, and where they can. \u00a0Yes, that is a brick that is being used as a pillow. \u00a0The scene is quite foreign to people from the western world. \u00a0It serves as a reminder to me, that I am in a different country that has a different way of living, not better or worse, just different.<\/p>\n<p>Today was the last work day for us for the week. \u00a0Our work week as teachers goes from Monday to Thursday giving us three-day weekends. \u00a0Of course we are busy with filling out all kinds of documents as we prepare to submit our term plans and have enough lessons ready for the next teaching week. \u00a0Life as a teacher in China is the same as it is in Canada &#8211; as much work outside of the classroom as within the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way to class I happened upon this scene. \u00a0After a long morning which starts early for the crew working in front of the apartment building, usually around 7:00 am, it is time for a bit of a break. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/09\/09\/now-for-a-well-deserved-week-end\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,33,38,75,100,123,211,217,238,245,83],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-c-i-t","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-esl-blog","tag-foreign-teacher","tag-jiangsu","tag-sunshine-garden","tag-teaching-esl","tag-xinbei","tag-yangguang-huayuan","tag-83"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}