The "last" lectures

ENG3640

ENG2840

Last week, I taught my last classes and delivered the last lecture at the Chinese University. The courses were ENG2840 Lexical Studies in English and ENG3640 Englis Language Teaching & Learning. Although I may teach short, intensive courses as a consultant, these are the last, semester-long courses I would teach.

I began teaching English in 1968 as an 18-year old in Sri Lanka to students barely younger than myself. More than 40 years later, my students were young enough to be my grandchildren. It's been an interesting journey from Sri Lanka through the Sultanate of Oman and the USA into Hong Kong.

Strangely, I felt little emotion during this week.