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Stephanie lands in China on a Tuesday. By Thursday she's standing in front of five classes at a public school, making it up as she goes, with no Chinese and a stack of Xerox copies. Friday she's at a completely different school with air conditioning and colored walls.

Then 40 seven-year-olds say "hello, teacher" all at once - and something clicks. About teaching. About language. About how she'd been going about all of it wrong her whole life.

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:32 Drop Kicked
• 01:10 The Taxi Cards
• 01:48 Public School Thursday
• 02:28 Experimental School Friday
• 03:05 A, A, Apple, Apple
• 04:02 Hello, Teacher
• 05:18 You Make It Fun
• 06:44 Where I'd Gone Wrong
• 08:10 Until Next Time