Please Get Ready For Your Arrival

I really like getting the chance to help Chinese visitors find their way. First, it’s a nice karmic balance for all the times kind Beijing and Yantai folks helped get me where I wanted to go, despite my awful Chinese. And second, my survival-level Mandarin includes the four compass direction, the words for bus, train and street, and numbers, and that’s really all the vocab you need to give Chinese directions in New York City.