These posts are primarily ESL related, though some are just about language in general.
Me: Hello! How are you today? Student 1: I am…happy. Me: That is good to hear. Hi! How are you? Student 2: I am happy. Me: You are also happy? Student 2: Shen ma? (translation: What?) Me: You are also happy? She (gesture to student 1) is happy. I (gesture to me) am happy. You […]
Because I do theater, I accept that people will watch me. That’s actually the goal – to get an audience. But I also am used to my day to day activities going unnoticed. It’s not the case here. Here, everything I do in public is observed obviously. People stare at me when I walk down […]
Next to my hotel is a collection of restaurants. Bill took Vega (my TA) and me to two of them. So when I decided that I couldn’t just hide in my hotel room and live on the breakfast buffet, I went to one of the two places I knew. I chose it because I remembered […]
Due to the aforementioned tea accident, I lost all my writings about my initial impressions. They were long and rambling – like most of my stories. Rather than try to recreate all of them here, I’m going to talk about getting to China, and a sort of summary of my first few days. Day 1: […]
Gal's Got Moxie 