Simpson's Paradox

Model posing with Carol and Grace!

Sven shows us blue steel.

He has a lot of modeling experience.

A rare photo of everyone at work.

(Staged, of course)

Cup of Cha’s post called Goodbye Foreign Visitors describes my feelings on the new visa regulations, only more eloquently than I’d put it. This week involved saying goodbye to expat friends, Sven from Tennessee and Christina both left on Saturday.
Any foreigner living in China now will tell you that something weird is going on. Our [...]

Yesterday, we went up to Wudaokou to visit Sven. Wudaokou is a cool college-town area in northwest of the city, Propaganda is down the street, and a Pizza Hut, and an English bookstore. Our favorite Indian restaurant, Ganges, is just down the street. As soon as we got off the subway, I started to feel [...]

Thanks to Sven (who does not foster age-inappropriate crushes) for the title.

I asked one of my classes to write about their Chinese names. What’s your Chinese name? Who choose your name? What does it mean? Are you named after someone? Do you like it? Is it common?
This assignment was suggested to me at LCC as [...]

In the office the other day…

Sven: I’m off to class to have mad fun with our apathetic teenagers!

Carol: Good job! Did you learn that word from David?

Sven: What?

Meg: He said “mad fun” not “ma fan“. (Chinese for problems or trouble)

Carol: Wow, your tones are almost as bad as Sven’s.

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My specs had a tragic accident today. After Sven helped me out at school with a superglue temporary fix, I went to the specs store to get new ones. We get Stick’s contact lens solution at a little glasses shop by our apartment, so I knew where to go, but I hadn’t really looked at [...]

I work with two other Americans, Sven From Tennessee and David The Teen Idol (the students love him). We were in the teachers’ office today, enjoying the pleasures of full-speed English, when David The Teen Idol mentioned he was on his way to his other job, where he teaches conversational English to adults…
…at the Office [...]

The real reason for YouTube’s inaccessibility doesn’t have anything to do with that place with the mountains, it’s actually due to this video of my new co-teacher Sven impersonating a monkey.
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