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Regarding Franz Ferdinand:
Would someone please tell me if “Austro-Hungarian Empire”, “Bosnian assassins”, and “the beginning of World War One” are also bands before my students get any more impromptu history lessons?
Our Foreigner
So the other day I was at the little streetmarket in the alley near my apartment, and I saw crazy little melons I couldn’t recognize. I asked the seller what they are, but my language skills are at a weird … Continue reading
Still Not Over The Staring Thing
As Jeff and Fresca both said, mere words cannot describe the constant staring in Kafaqu, but I’m going to try anyway. (Sorry to bore the old China hands.) I can understand it on some level, a foriegn girl playing games … Continue reading
Space Chase
Stephen Follows, the producer of The War On Terror: The Musical has a new movie called Space Chase which is up for some kind short film of the year award at this Cannes thing which is important to people who … Continue reading
The Price of Tea in China
One of the most useful Chinese phrases is pronounced “can ee can”. It means “just looking” or in my case “Quit picking up merchandise and banging it against my glasses. I can be trusted to find any items in plain … Continue reading
Scenes From a Chinese Restaurant
Meg: Fresca, you just asked for a dumpling that doesn’t eat meat!!! Fresca: Shut up, English mouse.
Language Barriers
In the beginning of Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw says that English dialects are so varied that an Englishman cannot open his mouth in public without another Englishman instantly hating him. He might have been writing about China in 2006, but … Continue reading
Chinese Zoo
Today I brought in some colored clay and told my students to make animals. It seemed like a fun, easy identification lesson, made even easier by the fact that I was recently reprimanded for teaching “sage”, “turquoise” and “lavender” so … Continue reading
What I Did On My May Vacation
Fresca came to class with me today. I was at the middle school (that paragon of all educational virtues that is Number Three) and I was asking everyone what they could do over May Holiday in order to talk about … Continue reading
