(life) thrift store

[Ria Smit]

Posted by: "Satina Anziano" satina_9@...
Fri Oct 2, 2009 5:17 am (PDT)
Hi again,
I really do wish we could get better organized about advertising our
stuff here. When I was planning to come here, in early June, I asked
the FAO if she would put me in touch with the departing expat so I
could see if he/she wanted to leave any stuff behind. She refused.
Probably didn't want any exchange of gossip, or maybe she seriously
believed he had bought nothing in the 10 months here? In fact, we four
foreigners find we all had to go out and buy a set of
spoon/fork/knife, toaster, dinner plate etc. within our first weeks
here.

Any suggestions? Can we start a new branch of TEFLChina--Recycle?
Satina Anziano
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I know that there are "Free Cycle" sites in China too but I suspect
that they are started by foreigners and that no one really looks at
them.  However, it is a good idea on these lists, if enough people are
interested.
Could there be a "TEFL Free Cycle" site?  1996 I gave away a lot when
I was given three days to leave the country after being here for four
years.  No time to organize sales in that situation.
Ria
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Ria Smit, Zhengzhou, China
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triviality that happens to us,
and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the
same person?
                            -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld  (1613-1680)

[Margaret Curtis]

Is it possible that these scenarios (below) are deliberately orchestrated so
that people on site may benefit? I must say that on two occasions I relinquished
a ton of stuff to whomever....And I have heard of situations where things boxed
and labelled for incoming FTs mysteriously disappeared.

Margaret Curtis

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1996 I gave away a lot when I was given three days to leave the country after being here for four years.  No time to organize sales in that situation.

Ria

[Jada Rufo]

On Sat, 10/3/09, Margaret Curtis <margaret.curtis@...> wrote:

I have heard of situations where things boxed and labelled for incoming FTs mysteriously disappeared.
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At my last place of employment I inherited a Mark Twain book and four wooden hangers from the previous foreign teacher who was there four years before me!  Between 2008 and 2004 there were no other teachers.
 
I've never set aside anything for teachers coming after me unless they arrive before I leave. Then they get first dibs on whatever I have.  Also, if there are other foreign teachers in the same area who are interested they also can come and see what I have or I can deliver the items they want to them.
 
Jada






A  Hui Hou!
 

 
             Jada
 

--- On Sat, 10/3/09, Margaret Curtis <margaret.curtis@...> wrote:


From: Margaret Curtis <margaret.curtis@...>
Subject: Re: (life) thrift store
To: TEFLChinaLife@...
Date: Saturday, October 3, 2009, 4:48 PM


Is it possible that these scenarios (below) are deliberately orchestrated so
that people on site may benefit? I must say that on two occasions I relinquished
a ton of stuff to whomever....And I have heard of situations where things boxed
and labelled for incoming FTs mysteriously disappeared.

Margaret Curtis

----------------
1996 I gave away a lot when I was given three days to leave the country after being here for four years.  No time to organize sales in that situation.

Ria


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