This weekend I travelled from Washington to Beijing to deliver a teacher training workshop on enterprise curriculum development at Beijing Information Management School, a vocational high school. This was only the second time for me working with a Chinese school, as opposed to further or higher education institutions. So this brought about its own challenges, as the curriculum’s are more standardized and fixed. During the workshop a range of enterprise activities were undertaken by participants and applied and slotted into curriculum’s as wide ranging as cooking, music and sport.
Whilst in Beijing I found time to hunt down the new Jing-A Brew Pub after the Jing-A Taproom closed in April. The Brew Pub has a very different feel to the Tap Room as it is long and thin and has numerous rooms and bars. It is not as open and fresh as the Tap Room and feels more like other local bars, which was a little disappointing. However, the beer and food was still good, although with a different food menu (I hate change). I am not looking forward to the 14 hour flight and 12 hour time difference on the way back, but I have a short break to the Finger Lakes and Niagara Falls to look forward to once back.
Robin Bell 