March 23rd: kites and Kedu vultures
[ posted by mcdeviltoast ]
Day 188
Padding the lesson with St. Patty's review helps, along with the mouse/mouth drills. I now make them say the ridiculous sentence "There is a mouse in my mouth." I also had to work on cup/cap, really nail the vowel sounds, make them different. One class was really excited about flying kites, so we sped through the lesson and went out to the field the last ten minutes of class. I wanted to reward them for being good and using English.
They had some really unique kite designs and told me I could buy them at Dongzhou Park. I might try to pick one up this week, one with a fantastically long tail.
After classes, I rode up to the middle school. Heather, Jeni and I went to Kedu for discounted wine and tea bisquits. While in the wine aisle, one woman was inquiring about a wine I knew to be bunk and I was finally able to use my favorite Chinese phrase in context: (phonetic spelling) "Jigga bee nigga how" which means "This one is better than that one." She thanked me, said my Chinese was very good while Heather just giggled herself silly.
On the way out of the store, we saw a woman's sweatshirt which curiously read: "The more it does, the more the taste comes out." Ah, China; ever the wellspring of accidental humor. We ate at the tents, got the usual fried rice and hash brown thing. Mr. Yeah was sadly absent. Ever since I took a picture with him, he seems to have vanished.
Afterwards, Mike and I went to Times in search of bourbon, but all they had was Scotch. We tried in vain to think of the other liquor for a Rusty Nail before shrugging and planning a weekend jag to Nantong for more Wild Turkey.
Heather, Jeni, and I watched "The Ninth Configuration" and had wine. It was even better the second time. I absorbed the film on a different level and it was supremely satisfying. I gave a lecture on the history and merits of Love and Rockets, gathered my procured goodies from Kedu and pedaled home, dreading my looming long Thursday. Sleep came like a chloroform-soaked handkerchief.
Padding the lesson with St. Patty's review helps, along with the mouse/mouth drills. I now make them say the ridiculous sentence "There is a mouse in my mouth." I also had to work on cup/cap, really nail the vowel sounds, make them different. One class was really excited about flying kites, so we sped through the lesson and went out to the field the last ten minutes of class. I wanted to reward them for being good and using English.
They had some really unique kite designs and told me I could buy them at Dongzhou Park. I might try to pick one up this week, one with a fantastically long tail.
After classes, I rode up to the middle school. Heather, Jeni and I went to Kedu for discounted wine and tea bisquits. While in the wine aisle, one woman was inquiring about a wine I knew to be bunk and I was finally able to use my favorite Chinese phrase in context: (phonetic spelling) "Jigga bee nigga how" which means "This one is better than that one." She thanked me, said my Chinese was very good while Heather just giggled herself silly.
On the way out of the store, we saw a woman's sweatshirt which curiously read: "The more it does, the more the taste comes out." Ah, China; ever the wellspring of accidental humor. We ate at the tents, got the usual fried rice and hash brown thing. Mr. Yeah was sadly absent. Ever since I took a picture with him, he seems to have vanished.
Afterwards, Mike and I went to Times in search of bourbon, but all they had was Scotch. We tried in vain to think of the other liquor for a Rusty Nail before shrugging and planning a weekend jag to Nantong for more Wild Turkey.
Heather, Jeni, and I watched "The Ninth Configuration" and had wine. It was even better the second time. I absorbed the film on a different level and it was supremely satisfying. I gave a lecture on the history and merits of Love and Rockets, gathered my procured goodies from Kedu and pedaled home, dreading my looming long Thursday. Sleep came like a chloroform-soaked handkerchief.
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[ posted by mcdeviltoast @ 3/23/2005 07:22:00 PM ]
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