| the old pond / frog jumps in / plop! – Matsuo |
Personal Pronoun – wǒ (我) = I, me I will Learn Chinese with stupid puns – I me Wherever you go, you’re going to want to talk about yourself. Learn Chinese with stupid puns – I me But don’t forget… “Woe is me, I can’t speak Chinese” woe / wǒ wǒ = I, me Wǒ is me, I…
Pack up and move out. Hard work culminated on the Minneapolis tarmac this weekend. After their wedding in August my old sister and new brother said, “Hawaiinough already” and moved forward with their plan to home up on the island of Maui. This was a monumental move and required Herculean efforts of organization. If you…
The midnight climb heightened my senses. Sulfury rotten eggs wafted in the wind. We were 18 kilometers away from our campsite and halfway up Ol Doinyo Lengai, which is in Tanzania known as The Mountain of God. The last active volcano in the region. Talk about study abroad. Despite this scope of adventure, peanut butter…
Put your thumb on the direct geographical center of any modern map of China and you’d crush my village, jerk. Cheng County, nestled in the mountains of Gansu province, is small by Chinese standards. In China, “small” means 250,000 people. I would tell locals that my hometown had 5,000 people and they’d look astonished… or,…
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So far, my time mixing languages, dialects of languages, conversations, questions, answers, and misunderstandings could be summed up in one word: bewildering.
