Hello everyone! My name is Victoria and I am a rising junior attending Binghamton University, majoring in Chinese Studies, English, and Philosophy. I am based in New York, but am originally from Canada. I love the diversity of New York's 5 boroughs and of its pop culture, as different cultures borrow from each other and adapt to new environments. I visited China in the summer of 2019, but have not been to any other East Asian countries. Currently, I'm finishing an online workshop for my English Teaching assistant position this upcoming fall, and hope to be teacher/professor in the future. It's exciting to be able to audit this class because I'm very interested in learning about how teachers are integrating new knowledge, technologies, and cultures into their classrooms everyday, which I find inspiring and feel is crucial to the growth of society. 

Hello, everyone. My name is Xiaohong Lin and I currently teach Mandarin and Exploring Asian culture in a charter high school,  Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I like the weather best here. It is a coastal city, not too cold and hot. I come from China but I haven't visited other countries in East Asia. The pandemic changed my teaching style a lot. At the beginning, I taught everything virtually, then transferred to hybrid mode, where I have to use technology a lot. So how to engage students and let them stay on task becomes the top of my teaching. It also affected my teaching curriculum a lot during the pandemic, but fortunately we are going back to in-person in the upcoming semester. It is a great pleasure to participate in this workshop with you guys and look forward to learning and seeing you all!

Greetings,

I am delighted to join you as an auditor—many thanks to my NCTA colleagues at USC US-China Institute for hosting me! I am a writer, translator, and book reviewer currently based in western Massachusetts. I have lived in East Asia and have worked in intercultural education for quite some time—as a consultant, community volunteer, and occasional substitute teacher. I love exploring culinary histories and food cultures as they relate to identity and migration, and I look forward to learning together. See you soon!

I teach Culinary Arts at Dorsey High School in Los Angeles.  I was born and raised in Los Angeles and I love my city for the melting pot that it is. I enjoy learning about other cultures through food. The only place in Asia I have traveled to thus far is Fiji. I look forward to this pandemic being over so that I can travel to more places. The hardest part in teaching during the pandemic was looking at a screen of names and not knowing if my students were engaged or not during my demos. 

Hello everyone! My name is Megan Hsiao and I teach Mandarin Chinese in Cleveland Ohio. After living in Ohio for so many years, the aspect I dislike the most is the snowy winter but I like the friendliness and simplicity of life here. I am originally from Taiwan and I love East Asian culture. I really hope to visit East Asian countries such as Japan and Korea. During the pandemic last year, my school had both a hybrid and fully remote model, which actually helped me to learn a lot about remote teaching. Although many students learn the best from in-person settings, I think remote learning will still remain demanding in the coming years.

Hi Folks,
Great to meet many of you yesterday. Catherine and I are delighted to have you in the seminar. We're especially happy to have people from all across the US participating. Here's a request: please take and share photos with us of 1-2 East Asian restaurants in your area. It's great to learn about all these places, especially if you've dined there yourself. You can share them via the Teaching about Asia Facebook group or here in the discussion forum. Just a snapshot of the restaurant sign is fine. Please include the location (city or town is enough).

I have been teaching for a long time. I've taught at both the secondary and college level and in China and in California and Kentucky here in the US. My main fields are Chinese, Japanese and US history, though I've also taught English and journalism. I really enjoy travel, natural and urban parks, movies and books.

Below are three photos from Beijing Broadcasting Institute in 1984. The first is the dining hall and the next two are from an outing we took by bike and bus to Yuanmingyuan. Lunch in the faculty dining hall was about .3 yuan, it was mainly steamed rice with a bit of vegetables and meat. As our Chinese teachers can explain, the characters (L to R) call on folks to love the school, love students... I had camped a lot as a student, so was familiar with cooking outside. Still, I was surprised to see my students break out cooking equipment for our day trip. Yuanmingyuan is an important site with a very complicated and tragic story. The picture is of some of the ruins of a small portion of the complex that was designed in European style by a Jesuit painter/missionary. The complex was destroyed by British and French soldiers in 1860. 

Ping, thanks for mentioning Taiwan's night markets--I miss them! Have you seen Netflix's Street Food: Asia series?