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My Chinese is Very 不好
Excerpt from December 2014 As I’ve mentioned in the past, my Mandarin skills leave something to be desired – just little things like vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. Besides those, it’s fantastic. This doesn’t mean that I can’t communicate at all. Read More …
My Sweet Ride – Don’t Be Jealous
– October 2014 – I’m pretty sure that you already know that I travel by scooter. They’re called ebikes here, electric bikes, and I think that sounds a little less squirrely. I wouldn’t have been particularly proud about it back Read More …
Textbooks Can’t Teach You Everything
Textbooks can’t teach you everything. For instance, just today I learned through experience that goji berries will sink to the bottom of your tea cup if you squish them. This important piece of information will save the decorum of many Read More …
Surly Squirrelies
This morning I looked out the back window to see that our doormat was suspiciously out of place. Something had drug our door mat – an old cloth rug – halfway to the garage where it lay in a crumpled Read More …
CSI China
The TEFL course didn’t prepare me for this. I had no idea going in that being a teacher required a knowledge of forensic science. No really, to keep my cute little students from cheating the pants off my course, I Read More …