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• huzhou, less food-related, Shanghai, students, teaching

  Revival

  08.09.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Daytime soaps deliberately leave the greatest cliffhangers for Friday so that the viewer must suffer through the weekend wondering just who is the father of Theresa’s baby or if Louis will ever find out that poor Sheridan is locked in Beth’s basement and that the baby Beth is ‘pregnant’ with is, in fact, a sack [...]

  

• amuse bouche, From the Mouths of Babes, 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 [...]

  

• Christmas, holidays, less food-related, students, teaching

  ******mas

  12.30.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Chinese people like to compare Christmas to Spring Festival, the Lunar New Year, the Chinese Holiday of holidays. Over Spring Festival, big cities are abandoned as people go home to see their families. Even in Beijing, which is renowned for its abysmal traffic, the streets are empty. All over the country businesses close, train tickets [...]

  

• 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.

  

• animals, huzhou, KFC, less food-related, Parks, students, teaching

  A Serious Expression in the Middle of July

  04.13.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  “Hey, a preschool is asking for some foreign teachers to give classes…and they want to invite foreigners from our school. Do you have any interest in this job offer?” Silly me, I thought Hebe wrote that message in English. It wasn’t until I declined her offer that I realized it was actually in Chinese. Translation: [...]

  

• baking, dessert, home cooking, huzhou, Shanghai, students, teaching

  You Have No Ikea

  04.02.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Every year around this time, I wonder what was going through my mother’s mind as she was delivering me. Of course there’s “OWWWWWW!” and the whole “My life is never going to be the same” thing, but I imagine that as my mother was expelling me into the world, there was another thought pushing for [...]

  

• amuse bouche, huzhou, teaching

  An Amuse-Bouche

  12.09.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Today in class I put Audrey, Grace, Gloria, Tiffany and Julie in one group solely for the classic cinema fun of it. I really wish I had a student named Diamond so I could put him/her in a group with Lucy and Sky. O, the simple joys of teaching…

  

• huzhou, less food-related, out and about, teaching

  EIEI-Oh God

  11.24.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I was kind of feeling sorry for myself last weekend. TJ went to Hangzhou to see his girlfriend and the other laowai were scattered around Suzhou and Shanghai, so the foreigner population decreased about 80 percent. I had the privilege of remaining in Huzhou and teaching two classes on Saturday at some “International Training Center,” [...]

  

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