I'm looking over things that I planned to write in my blog back then and I don't really feel like writing about those things.
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Chinese friends ask what instant messaging service we use in America, and I don't really know. I know that I grew up using AIM, and I know that Facebook and Gmail have their chatting things, but I don't know what people actually use... What do you use?
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I despise Chinese cellphone etiquette. It's common to see people answer phones at meals, in meetings, and during class (both teachers and students).
One of my former students was having a tough day. 4-year-old "Peter" had been misbehaving during class, and his mom knew about it. After class, Peter came up crying, his mother trying to force him to apologize to his teachers. Right in the middle of this ordeal, the mom's cellphone rang, she answered it and walked off, leaving Peter with tears in his eyes and me awkwardly trying to calm him down.
Of course, it would be foolish to propose that people in the United States don't foster some unappealing social habits.
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My parents and little brother are moving away from Phoenix, Arizona to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My dad took a new job with World Harvest Mission, and they move in June of this year.
I was born in the Philippines, grew up in Atlanta, Seattle, and Phoenix, and currently live in Chengdu. If my parents move to a city to which I have never been while I remain in Chengdu, how do I answer when someone asks me "Where are you from?"
I'm sure I have a couple of friends and cousins who can provide me with some advice with regard to answering this question.
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My American friends who are living in China and I will be asked if we are from Xinjiang or Tibet at least once a month.
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Remember my stories about saying students' names in funny orders? (Jim! Kerry!) (Jerry! Louis!)
I had a "Fish" and a "Tank" in one of my classes a few months ago...
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I can never wear the correct amount of clothing for Chinese people during the changing of seasons.
"Aren't you cold?" "Aren't you hot?"
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I've studied Chinese for more than 3 years, and I only realized a few months ago what "差不多"means. It means 差-不-多!!!
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In the past few months, I've eaten snails, some kind of larvae, bugs, and kangaroo.
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It's ironic that Sichuan women try to tell me how to eat given the stature of Sichuan men.
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Kaskade- Fire & Ice
Skrillex- Bangarang EP
Lily Allen- It's Not Me, It's You
Chris Brown- F.A.M.E
And I can't stop listening to
Eisley- The Valley
Kimbra- Vows
Gotye- Making Mirrors
Gotye- Like Drawing Blood
Haters gon' hate, y'all...
