Category Archives: Videos

Teaching English is Fun!

Posted on June 16, 2010 by thormay

This video (4.5 min­utes) records one of my class­es of nurs­ing stu­dents in Zhengzhou, Henan, Chi­na in 2010.   The secret key to teach­ing well is to learn from stu­dents, and odd as it seems, the stu­dents who learn best are … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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The Journey of a Passionate Skeptic

Posted on June 8, 2010 by thormay

speech to grad­u­at­ing stu­dents at Holmes/ZRVTC, Zhengzhou, Chi­na  by Thor May PhD, June 8, 2010   Hon­oured guests, ladies and gen­tle­men, teach­ers, stu­dents, friends, 大家好 (da4  jia1 hao3) ! Con­grat­u­la­tions to the first grad­u­ates of our Inter­na­tion­al Joint Ven­ture with Holmes Insti­tute … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Born 1945 — Still Running Strong

Posted on May 16, 2010 by thormay

This short video (2.5 min­utes) was  made in Chi­na in 2010 for the pur­pose of show­ing the Chi­nese Pub­lic Secu­ri­ty Bureau that “I wasn’t dead yet”. If was a futile exer­cise since they threw me out of Chi­na a lit­tle … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Times Sixty on Frosty Gyemyeongsan

Posted on February 12, 2007 by thormay

A poem of age and age­ing, ugli­ness and beau­ty, and the age­less peak of Gye­myeongsan loom­ing behind Chungju, in South Korea. I wrote it in 2006. You can see the words here.

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Extraordinary — a love poem

Posted on February 5, 2007 by thormay

This is one of my own poems. I wrote it in 1995. You can see the words here. Hope you like it.

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Tiger in the Night

Posted on January 29, 2007 by thormay

This is one of my own poems (for the rest see my main site, thormay.net ). “Tiger in the Night” tries to cap­ture some of Korea’s spir­it, ancient and mod­ern. There’s a lot to this place, for those who care … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Sea Fever by John Masefield

Posted on January 21, 2007 by thormay

This poem is ter­rif­ic for learn­ing the rhythm of Eng­lish (if you are an Eng­lish lan­guage learn­er). For those of us who have steered a boat under sail, it catch­es some­thing mag­i­cal. John Mase­field (1878–1967) was the British poet lau­re­ate … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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