Ni hao Mingdao xue sheng

Ni hao,

I am Mr. Gibson. I am a new teacher here at Mingdao. I will be your full time Model UN, Cultural Explorations and World History teacher for the 2009-10 school year. I am 23 years old. My home is St. Louis, MO, United States. I have been teaching for three years. Last year, I taught English in Korean International School of Qingdao in Qingdao, China. Before that I taught at Cape Girardeau Junior and Senior High School back in the United States. My favorite foods are mom's lasagna, kim chi, sushi, baozi, and salmon. My hobbies include canoeing, hiking, playing basketball, playing music, and listening to music (especially The Beatles, The Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, Cake, and The Who).

Today, 2009/08/12, I will being teaching at Mingdao. I am going to help Mr. G with Model UN and begin teaching Cultural Explorations. For those of you in Model UN, I hope you are as excited about it as Mr. G. and I are! You can think of Model UN as a mini Olympic Games where each of you compete for a different country. Instead of racing each other or playing ping pong, you compete by trying to write the best solution to a problem and then convincing other coutries to vote for your solution. it is a fun, exciting way to learn about our world, while also learning how to think critically, gain confindence speaking in public, improve our English, and apply stuff we read about in class.

I am very happy to be here in Taichung, and I look forward to teaching all of you!

Hen gao xing ren shi ni men!

Mr. Gibson