| the old pond / frog jumps in / plop! – Matsuo |
So, if you’re like me and wish you could remember how many times you actually wore pants during high school, this article might be for you. Here are two easy, practical ways to keep track of your service that can help optimize your mental health.
So far, my time mixing languages, dialects of languages, conversations, questions, answers, and misunderstandings could be summed up in one word: bewildering.
The Banana Method. Theoretically, this delicious method of speech preparation was supposed to get my students ready to speak, but practically we had more fun with it than that.
This last weekend there was a traditional Chinese holiday called Dragon Boat Festival. Almost everyone gets to play hooky from school for it in China. As for me, I started a campfire with a koala bear.
After the wrap we celebrated with a cake and a lot of beer until the wee hours of the morning. It was then, during the zenith of my inebriated clarity, that I realised something. “I, too, am tipsy,” I slurred aloud in non-tonal Chinese to the twenty or twenty-five people in the room.
There was only numbness in my legs, with the occasional echo of pain deep within, which always whispered, “give up, you asshole.”
