Dear Students, I have to leave you and return to Australia. Sorry my friends, I didn’t intend this to happen. Unfortunately I have become too sick to continue as your teacher and will go back to my own country. I will miss teaching you and will miss China very much. I hope you will keep visiting my blog so you know what happens to me and I will be very happy if sometimes you write to me in the comments section below. I know your new teacher and she is an interesting person with a very wide experience of life. She loves China as much as I do and has been here for six years. I am sure she will become your friend as I did.
Let me encourage you once more to use English every day outside of classroom life. The more you talk with your friends in English the better your spoken English will become. One day you might become truly bi-lingual. That would be a treasure for life. Performance in exams is nothing if the ability is not there but if the exams reflect true ability you are an excellent student.
There is an unfortunate culture in China that encourages cheating and using ways to gain high scores that avoid the need for true learning. Without true learning there is no true success. It is all ‘emptiness and chasing the wind’. I know you are capable of true learning. If you seek true learning you will achieve true success. I wish you all well. I want you all to become the best kind of people and make your country and your families proud.
Your friend and teacher, Hugh.