Tag Archives: New York City
For Love Or Money
This story on Laowai!Laowai! talks about running a speaking exercise for high school age ESL students. This exercise asks each student to choose between Love or Money, and explain why. Without exception, the boys in his class chose Love while … Continue reading
Communist Credit Cards
Wal-Mart is launching a new credit card in China. This is especially interesting because China seems to really be a cash economy. According to the Wall Street Journal’s article, less than 5% of Chinese consumers have credit cards. Most people … Continue reading
罗马, 意大利
I mailed a letter to Stick yesterday. The clerk took a look at the envelope, on which I’d slowly and painfully copied out ??, ??? onto the envelope. If speaking faster and mumbling more is the key to spoken Chinese, … Continue reading
Stick In Rome
Stick called me from Rome the other night! It was so great to talk to him! And then he mentioned the Subject About Which We Do Not Speak. A lot of couples have one, an issue that’s tacitly acknowledged but … Continue reading
Saving Those For The Bad Teachers
Nick has started a thread on WTH Conversations In China. Whyguoren writes about trying to use his bank card in a bank. Talk Talk China writes about… actually almost everything on Talk Talk China is about the WTH moment. Life … Continue reading
Nerdy Girl Makes Fun Of Popular Hot Girl For Taking Her Clothes Off
Apparently, you can make a name for yourself on MySpace. And that name can have as many capital letters as you want. ForBiddeN is a MySpace user, who posts naked pictures and semi-naked pictures, as well as offering her own … Continue reading
Kermit And Plato
After months of asking about Chinese myth and recieving either blank stares or incomprehensible tales about monkeys in magic headbands, I finally heard a fable I understand. A frog lives in a deep well, and all he can see is … Continue reading
Forget Facebook Fray — Feeds are Finished
It seems that the Change It Back! Facebook groups have been heard. The mini-feed is gone. It seems that the issue has become all about internet privacy and not my complaint that the feeds were mind-numbingly dull. Mark Zuckerburg admits … Continue reading
Facebook Fervor
I joined Facebook three years ago because I’m internet obsessed hip to all web trends, and in that time, Facebook’s added a lot of cool features. You can list your course schedule and search for users by class. You can … Continue reading
Closer Than My Peeps
Barbara, one of our students, invited Dave, Zorro and me to come to KTV with some of her friends. Now, I am no stranger to getting mildly intoxicated and belting out a Human League duet, but a Chinese Kareoke bar … Continue reading
