Migrated my website(s) to a new host in Austria (it even is www.hostaustria.at)…
So, in the lead-up to that, I had already deferred updating the blog. Now, I just brought everything back in order… some things still don’t seem to work quite the way they should (such as some of the links in the sidebar on the right), but it also seems that I’m getting there.
More importantly, it means that I’m getting here. - As in, having my website also be available in China.
That may mean that I should be more careful what I write about… not everybody needs to know everything that has been happening, after all. That’s always an issue with online publication, however.
What it also means is that I can finally point to my website again when somebody asks what kinds of things I do and am interested in; and I could consider using the blog as a teaching tool (which leads back to the little problem of my liking for writing in English, but current German teaching…).
I very much like having these possibilities, for - strange as it may be for someone as “homeless” as I have long been - it feels as if I’ve come home in coming to China.
Just last week, this point really struck home when I stood at a window on an upper floor of the building I had my lesson in, looked outside, and found that I loved the landscape I saw: At the same time, a countryside that looked wooded, almost wild, and at the same time, abundant signs - and the knowledge - of habitation and human influence.
Definitely a place where I finally find myself in a position of being able, wanting and needing to learn something new every day, and being able to use knowledge I have gained in teaching and for work.
It is, however, high time I took a cue from the Chinese students, worked harder again, but also developed my social side a bit more… and stopped writing these rambling and babbling posts 