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From the Mouths of Babes

• From the Mouths of Babes, amuse bouche, huzhou, less food-related, students, teaching

  On Lady Gaga and Enlightenment

  05.20.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Since my brain has been bled pretty dry in terms of lesson plan ideas, I had my kids make dialogues in class today. Little did I know it was time for the teacher to become the student. In three separate dialogues, the kids exclaimed, “Oh my Lady Gaga!” This is new, red hot catch phrase [...]

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• From the Mouths of Babes, huzhou, less food-related, students, teaching, tidbits

  I Don’t Know What That Is, Reege

  09.09.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  One of my favorite students just sent me the following text:
  “Hi,Ellis.can I ask you a question?how to analyse the reason on the fluctuation of the variable home mortgage rate”
  I was a film major specifically to avoid encountering questions like this.
  Thank God for Google.

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• From the Mouths of Babes, huzhou, less food-related, students

  Hummer of Humility

  04.24.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Welcome to the third and final installment of From the Mouths of Babes, or How I Went to Kashgar and Killed Class Time by Making My Students Write My Blog. Today’s installment comes from Wednesday morning Customs 0702/0704. This class is actually two classes combined together, and one day I walked into class to find [...]

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• From the Mouths of Babes, KFC, huzhou, less food-related, students

  Paper, Gunpowder, and the Weather Forecast

  04.22.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Welcome to the second installment of From the Mouths of Babes, or How I Went to Kashgar and Killed Class Time by Making My Students Write My Blog. Today we will here from my Tuesday morning English 0801 class. I love this class—it’s full of some spunky, funny kids, and it’s probably the only class [...]

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• From the Mouths of Babes, huzhou, less food-related, students

  From the Mouths of Babes

  04.20.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  **Uh, sorry bout that folks! Turns out my internet prowess ain’t so slick as I thought, and the Great Firewall of China prevented me from fixing my gaffe. Here’s the first of the posts I promised.
  Since I’m in Kashgar, I figured I’d have my students write my blog for me! This is the first in [...]

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• From the Mouths of Babes, KFC, animals, out and about, travel

  When In Doubt, Seek Colonel Sanders Out

  12.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  During pertinent lessons, I’ve asked my students: “If my parents came to visit Huzhou, what would you tell them to do/eat/see?”

  “Don’t come here!”

  “Why would they come to Huzhou?”

  “Huzhou is boring.”

  “There’s nothing to do here.”

  They may sound like whiny teenagers but…they’re kind of right. In Huzhou, one can shop (not much to [...]

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