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My friend Paul
Last semester, I was assigned to work together with our foreign teacher, Paul, who is an English, but he grew up in and now lives in Australia. He is a very special person.
He has a young Russian wife, who I called Anna, and he is very proud of his wife, mainly because she is 26 years younger than him, and very beautiful. I admire the romance and love between them, and sometimes I find it funny watching them quarrelling with each other. which I teased them, calling their fights as lovers' quarrels. arguments. I can vividly remember one day though, when Paul made Anna sad, with tears in her eyes, just because she unconsciously inadvertently cut off his talk, which irritated Paul quite a bit. Paul immediately ironically criticized her sarcastically as being rude... But luckily, Anna, a darling girl, quickly dried up her tears, and came out of her study and joined our talk again after a few words of comfort from me.
Paul has very rich facial expressions and can be very talktive if he likes. That explains why I like talking with him. You know, with him I myself had set some new personal records with him last year, in 2013. He even wrote 14 emails to me in one day! and Before him, I had never written more than 14 personal emails in one year. my personal email, I mean with friends, never more than 14 in a year. Moreover, in on my mobile phone, he also made set two new records for me that is the in conversation time - which I exceeded 30 minutes on one call time and 200 minutes a in one month.
He is kind of short-tempered, which resulted into some misunderstandings between him and the school we worked in, according to my understanding. He prefers everyting is to be pre-arranged, he wants every teaching task is to be specified clearly at the beginning of a semester, preferrably in a pack. Yes, indeed I agree with his opinion and I myself can try to accomodate him, do it, but for the others I can't assure him that the others will do the same. So when the director of the English department changed its the requirements now and then, he flared up, and even worsely he ironically criticized them sarcastically for being disorganized. For me, his reaction is seemed reasonable, but for others, it seemed a overly fussy. In fact, I even reminded him that he should get used to the working mechanism here, that is, nothing is for sure until the last minute. (That is the trouble with those Brits, they do like order. If he thinks teaching in China is bad, he should go to Mexico.)
He has got business mind a good mind for business, and he is very skilled at computers. Although Even though he only knows only a little Chinese, but while working in China, he can could go anywhere, since he knows how to get information online. He even ordered some things online, including his fishing equippments. He likes negotiating with the school's management layer, such things as teaching hours, airfares, payments, etc. Some negotiations turned out successfully, some not. but still some broke.
Paul is a smart...
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