SSAB - January 9, 2025

Have you stopped writing 2024 yet? Very quiet in Beijing these days. Are schools out already? Working on a cheat sheet for Mandarin, is it okay to teach Mandarin Chinese? New language vlog up: Time for a change? - All about considering a job change… but does that mean a change of country, too? Here’s the difference of jet lag: -in Canada, you fall asleep at 8pm but there’s no more real “business” to be done at that time other than see some people, who could probably meet earlier in the day. -in China, if I fall asleep at 8pm then that takes out all the evening chatter that can’t be done during the work day. Need to test out this import/export vlog idea, shall I take a trip? Yiwu? Wenzhou? Guangzhou (again?) Off to Harbin in a couple weeks for the ice show. Donate to the show! PayPal link below! https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA *** Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com And on Notion: https://stevensirski.notion.site/SSAB-The-Audio-Blog-of-Steven-Sirski-00acfe344e164bfab191d3cddf6952b2?pvs=4 December Drumming 2024 over here: https://skrskimuzik.bandcamp.com/album/december-drumming-2024 Newsletter over at stevensirski.substack.com (soon to be AI generated!) Language vlog on http://www.youtube.com/@stevenslanguagevlog Hope you have a great Thursday!  00:00 Introduction and Experimenting with New Recording Setup 01:09 Daily Life and Reflections 01:52 Tech Talk: MacBook and Recording Challenges 08:00 Beijing Life and Jet Lag Experiences 13:12 Teaching Mandarin Chinese and Course Development 22:57 New Language Vlog and Video Content Plans 27:05 Future Plans and Conclusion