One perky little blond girl has been showing up on some of my favorite blogs lately. First at Study More Chinese and then on Lost Laowai. So who is she? Well, her name is Jessica Beinecke but she is better known as Bai Jie the host of OMG! 美语. (OMG!
My New Teaching Policy
The Chinese school system is pretty strict when it comes to attendance. If a student needs to miss a class because they are sick, or have an appointment, or need to catch a bus, they always ask for permission beforehand. My personal policy is “no biggee.” I don’t keep track
Hitting up the Food Festival
Every year the “International Food Festival” hits up our campus. You know the type, food stalls filled with fatty, grilled and sweet food, a few games and some terrible rock music blaring non-stop. Every year we go, buy some overpriced crappy food and swear we’ll never go again. Until
The One Time I Leave my House Without a Camera….
I got suckered into being a dancing monkey speaking english for 30-minutes to a group of 3rd graders at our library. before I left the house my hand hovered over my camera. Should I? Â I decided naaah, it was just a bunch of snot turkeys little kids, and I was
Pomelo: Totally Worth the Effort
Every year at about this time we see these huge citrusy things showing up on the fruit stands. Some of them have wrappers with the word grapefruit on it, and I’ve never really been interested in trying them. Not a big grapefruit fan. But a few weeks ago I was
Great Wall of Links
There have been some interesting articles about China lately. Here is a round up of a few of my favorites. Awesome Commercial – We’ll start off with this hilarious Chinese commercial for 7up. It was brought to my attention by Brandon over at studymorechinese.com. Don’t worry it has english and
This Explains a Few Things
You might have noticed I’ve been a little light on the blog posts lately. I typically average 3 posts a week, but for several weeks I’ve only managed a paltry 2. That’s because I’m busy. Crazy busy. This is the busiest semester I’ve had since coming to China. And I’m
Humans can Never do Anything Simply
On a recent day trip to Wuzhen we went to the Yida Silk Workshop, a famous old-timey brand of silk that has been making silk tapestries, scarves and other things for over 100 years. In the back of the store they have a wooden warehouse where you can see the
The Two-Year Hump
Before I came to China people told me there was a 6-month language “hump.” That is, it would take 6 months for Chinese to change from a bat shit crazy collection of sounds (or the “ching-chong-ching” phase as John from Sinosplice calls it) to something that is recognizable as a
Chinglish!
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a Chinglish entry, and I have a few good ones that I’ve been saving up: