自新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情发生以来，世界各国的友人们纷纷祝福中国，为中国加油，并以自己的方式，与中国一起，共同抗疫。生活在石家庄的外国友人们也行动了起来，积极加入到防控疫情中来，让燕赵大地感受到了一股不一样的“温情”。为了保证教学，河北联邦国际学校国际部来自英国的外教Brendan放弃了全家回英国的机会，坚持留在学校，以校为家，为国际部的同学们带来一节节精彩的外教课。
On February 25th, Brendan shared some details about his daily life at home during the emergency period.Brendan comes from England, and he teaches English in the international department of Hebei Lianbang International School. He loves China and his Chinese students in the school.
Since the outbreak of the pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus in China, people stay at home in order to prevent and control the virus. “Life for me has been very easy compared to the majority of people that live in China during this epidemic situation. I am lucky enough to live on campus in my school (Hebei Lianbang International School, Shijiazhuang). ” Brendan said when talking about his daily life.
Enjoy school life
“At the start of the epidemic, I would spend time building snowmen in the school using the snow/ice left over from the big snowfall in January. I spend a lot of my free time watching TV and movies and skim reading books for useful stuff that I can use in my teaching or develop my own learning. I am teaching classes online with my students but I can use the classroom and so have access to the blackboard which is really useful for explaining things to them. ” said Brendan. He likes baking and lives a healthy lifestyle.
Brendan usually bakes at home
“I have been sharing teaching resources with my colleagues for over a year now, but I wanted to expand it. I thought the best thing to do would be to create a Wechat group with all English teachers in the school with the primary objective of sharing resources so that everyone could benefit. I will try to share things relevant to everyone. I think that this virus outbreak has given the students a huge opportunity to further their studies in ways that could only have been dreamt about before. For the first time they have access to the internet, a computed dictionary, thesaurus and a billion or more web pages at their disposal. From a teachers perspective this is the perfect opportunity to set them research projects, and for this, they will need resources.
Teaching in class
As a foreigner lives in Shijiazhuang, Brendan is concerned about the people in Wuhan and he said: “The outbreak of course is a difficult situation but I do believe that the Chinese government have handled it well. Take my city for example, there have been relatively few cases with no deaths. I feel sorry for China, as I have made it my home. However, I do believe China will bounce back stronger than ever. We are fighting against the virus together!”