http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/ A Seattleite in China en-us kmayhle@hotmail.com 2006-03-05T20:42:00+08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/archives/000718.html Today, as my Chinese friend told me, “is the day we learn from Lei Feng.” After Lei Feng’s death in 1962 he was declared by Chairman Mao Ze Dong to be a worthy role model and exemplary Communist. Lei Feng’s... 718@http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/ 2006-03-05T20:42:00+08:00 http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/archives/000717.html I bought my third Chinese flash disk yesterday. I use a flash disk to print my lessons and teaching materials – I type them on my laptop and then take the flash disk to a printing shop. The printing shops... 717@http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/ 2006-03-05T20:28:44+08:00 http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/archives/000712.html This morning I went to teach my second class, for the second time, only to find the classroom nearly empty. I asked whether it was Oral English class. “No,” a couple students replied. “No?” I ascertained. “Yes,” they confirmed. I... 712@http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/ 2006-02-27T20:06:55+08:00 http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/archives/000709.html I’ve lived here for two years and have finally figured out how to dress for the weather. It’s a pity, really, realizing that all those hours of shivering, in the classroom, walking down the street, in restaurants eating dinner, were... 709@http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/ 2006-02-26T18:13:51+08:00 http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/archives/000655.html One of my newest loves is Chinese television. It’s at least as vapid as American television, but for language learning, you can’t beat it, especially since a lot of programming in China includes closed captioning. I watch cartoons, game shows,... 655@http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/ 2005-11-23T19:52:42+08:00 http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/archives/000639.html Naomi had the privilege of grading this essay last week. The topic she assigned was, "Agree or disagree: the thinner a woman is, the more beautiful." The Thinner and the Beautiful I think the women the more thinner the more... 639@http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/ 2005-10-25T14:20:06+08:00 http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/archives/000637.html Conversations like this are common: A: Do you drink water before you go to bed? Me: Um…I do if I’m thirsty. A: So do I. But many people tell me I shouldn’t. Me: Why not? A: It’s bad for your... 637@http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/ 2005-10-24T22:11:00+08:00 http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/archives/000629.html If you want to get me going for a while, ask me why I skip off happily to the classroom every weekday morning and grin stupidly as I’m walking back to my room for lunch. I won’t go into all... 629@http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/ 2005-10-18T18:30:22+08:00 http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/archives/000628.html I did get some answers to my non-rhetorical question. I’m grateful to those who responded to my moment of confusion with answers that seem obvious when we’re thinking straight, but are easy to forget when we’re (I’m) lost in our... 628@http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/ 2005-10-18T18:05:28+08:00 http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/archives/000624.html If being close to people inevitably means being hurt by them and hurting them in return, then why bother?... 624@http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/ 2005-10-11T13:15:56+08:00 http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/archives/000619.html Eating a fruit jelly today*, I found a maraschino cherry. I bit down and inside was a pit. A pit! Everyone knows maraschino cherries are pitted and utterly without resemblance to the fruit that grows from the pink-blossomed trees! But... 619@http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/ 2005-10-06T21:29:12+08:00 http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/archives/000617.html Things I'm thankful for today: The sweet-scented osmanthus, which is blooming and covering the pig-farm stink the Yangtze river-wind has lately been blowing in from the north A surprise lesson with my favorite new Chinese teacher: I had asked another... 617@http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/ 2005-09-29T18:21:10+08:00 http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/archives/000614.html Yesterday evening I got another “Hello!” from a “grandma” (that’s the polite way to call/refer to women of that age here, and she does, in fact, have a grandchild). It was the second one in three days, and is pretty... 614@http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/ 2005-09-27T16:09:13+08:00 http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/archives/000613.html Dear Madam: I must beg your pardon. Yesterday I borrowed a novel from library. It’s so interesting that I can’t stop reading it. I forgot I was standing in a cold place where blowed wind. Now, I got a bad... 613@http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/ 2005-09-27T15:39:07+08:00 http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/archives/000610.html We were walking home in the dark, a little after 9:00 last Thursday evening. Suddenly someone on a bicycle next to me braked, thrust out his hand and asked my name. I realized we’d been surrounded by four of the... 610@http://huzzlecoo.seattleblogs.org/ 2005-09-25T17:49:11+08:00