Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
I am notorious worldwide for my appetite (really, everywhere I've gone, at least one person in a group with whom I'm sharing a meal just has to comment on how I can eat). Even in Costa Rica I sometimes ate three plates of rice and beans for dinner. And in ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
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In case you were wondering, everyone in the group with the exception of the Brazilian guy and Japanese girl were ethnic Chinese, but the Japanese girl was born in Beijing and probably speaks Mandarin better than I do, which means everyone who spoke Mandarin in the group could communicate ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Have you ever needed to switch among four languages during dinner?
I have.
It was loads of fun.
I am not being sarcastic.
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
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On the taxi ride, I thought I could get some shut-eye, but the driver kept talking to me about how people from Beijing and people from Shanghai have beef with each other because the former is the political capital of China and the latter is the business capital. And ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
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This day, Friday would be the toughest day of the hell week.
Briefly after I crawled out of bed and took a long, cold shower, the other American students and I had our graduation lunch with our program administrator, the program assistant, and the two professors assigned to teaching only ...
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